Updated on Saturday, July 04, 2009, 20:12 IST

New Delhi, July 04: Young Yuki Bhambri won his third title of the season when he beat Rohan Gajjar in straight sets to clinch the USD 15,000 ITF tennis tournament here today.

Birthday boy Yuki, seeded fourth, defeated sixth-seed Gajjar 6-2, 7-6 (6) in one hour and 22 minutes at the DLTA Complex here and set himself up for his fourth title of the season with the next ITF event starting here on Monday.

Yuki had earlier beaten the same opponent in straight sets en route his two ITF victories here in April and May.

The junior Australian Open champion, who turned 17 today, was not his usual best but still had enough arsenal at his disposal to knock out Gajjar.

He took full advantage of his opponent's erratic play and broke Gajjar in the first and third game to race to a 3-0 lead in the opening set.

However, a lapse of concentration from Yuki allowed Gajjar to break back and make the scoreline 3-1.

But Yuki broke Gajjar once again to go 5-2 up and then closed down the set with a clinical service game.

The second set started on quite a similar fashion as Yuki broke Gajjar in the third game, courtesy unforced errors, to go up 2-1.

However, Gajjar was in no mood to go down without a fight and drew parity, breaking Yuki's serve in the sixth game of the set.

From there on both players held their serve to take the set into the tie-breaker where the Delhi youngster held his nerve and came out victorious.

"There were few mistakes today, but I am happy to give him a tough fight throughout the match. It's always a good feeling to win a tournament and that too at home," said Yuki.

Victory fetched him USD 1,950 and 25 ATP points.

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