 Garcia-Lopez took just under one and three-quarter hours to win the final
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Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez capped an excellent week in Bangkok to clinch the Thailand Open title.
The 27-year-old caused an upset by beating compatriot and world number one Rafa Nadal in the semis and followed it up with victory over Jarkko Nieminen.
The world number 53 beat the Finn 6-4 3-6 6-4 in a tense battle between two unseeded players.
The deciding set was a thriller, but Garcia-Lopez held on to take the second ATP Tour win of his career.
He broke in the seventh game of the first set, chasing after a seemingly irretrievable drop-shot and responding with a better one of his own to stun Nieminen.
Nieminen, ranked 60 in the world, looked impressive throughout and came out fighting in the second set, utilising his fierce backhand and relentlessly pounding the ball to all corners of the court to level the score.
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The final set went down to the wire, with Nieminen refusing to quit at 5-4 down and saving a string of match points when Garcia-Lopez had one hand on the trophy.
However, the Finn could hold him off no longer and hit tame serve that the Spaniard smashed into the corner of the court to win his second final in three appearances, adding to his his only previous title victory in Kitzbuhel in 2009.
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