Francisco Cerundolo walked away with the biggest title of his career and the strongest Queens Tennis prize money return, beating Tommy Paul in the Queen’s Club final for 500 points and €483,145. The win moved him to 21st in the rankings and to 12th in the ATP Race.
The final went more than three hours. Cerundolo took it in three sets, closing out the first-set tiebreak 7-6 after Paul had saved a set point when he was serving for the opener.
Cerundolo’s Queen’s Club surge
That first set set the tone, but the scoreline hardened after it. Cerundolo took the next two sets 6-4 and 6-3, turning a tight opening into a title that he had never managed above the 250 level before.
He also handled a match that had already tilted toward him in one narrow way: Paul arrived with a 5-2 edge in their head-to-head record. The result flipped that recent pattern again, and it came on grass after Cerundolo had already beaten Paul in a three-set final at Eastbourne in 2023.
Tommy Paul leaves with 330 points
Paul’s run still produced a ranking return. He earned 330 points and stayed 24th in the rankings after the final, while Cerundolo moved up from 23rd to 21st.
The prize-money split shows how quickly the payouts rose through the draw. A first-round win at the 32-player tournament paid €20,145, then €37,780 in the round of 16, €70,775 in the quarter-finals and €138,530 in the semi-finals before the final jumped to €483,145 for the champion and €259,940 for the runner-up.
Queen’s Club final prize table
The Queen’s Club Championships carried a total purse of €2,583,330, or £2.23m. For Cerundolo, the title pushed him closer to his career-high ranking of 18, and the 500-point haul gives him a cleaner path into the next stretch of the season than he had before the week began.
Paul still leaves with points and a final appearance, but the gap between the two players after this match is now measured in more than one trophy. It is 21st against 24th in the rankings, 12th against 10th in the ATP Race, and a title that now belongs to Cerundolo alone.
