As per Cilic, Tipsaveric was playing his best tennis during the past 3 months and he was right.
After winning in Kuala Lumpur (26th of September) and the Moscow title (last week) , the Serb was poised to win again in St Petersburg.
Cilic, ranked 22, was of a different opinion and managed to win the title in his 4th 2011 final.
‘I played the first two sets a little bit up and down and had some unforced errors,’ Cilic said. ‘But I played my best tennis in the third set. I lost three finals this year and all of them were in three sets. So today, when the match went into the third set, I was really into it to win.’
‘Marin deserved to win – he was a better player today,’ Tipsarevic said. ‘I really gave everything today, but in the third set I felt it wasn’t about tennis it was about me completely out of fuel on court. I’ve played a lot of matches in the last two weeks.’
With this win, Cilic will be nr.20 in the ATP Rankings.
