Alex de Minaur has saved three championship points to win the Washington Open in an extraordinary comeback against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
The Australian seventh seed secured his third ATP 500 title, coming back from the brink to win 5-7 6-1 7-6(3) in three hours and five minutes.
De Minaur trailed 2-5, 0-30 in the third set on the Spaniard's serve and then saved three championship points in the 10th game before completing his comeback in the tiebreak.
It would have been the first career ATP title for the 26th ranked Davidovich Fokina, who had also lost all three ATP finals he had played in previously.
The first set was an even encounter, with the players exchanging early breaks of serve before Davidovich Fokina got his head in front with a break in the 11th game, serving it out 7-5.
De Minaur struck back in the second set, breaking the Spaniard in his first service game and once more to streak to a 6-1 win - forcing a deciding set.
The momentum swung back toward Davidovich Fokina in the third set, who secured a break in the fourth game.
Games remained on serve until the Spain 12th seed had an opportunity to serve for the match at 5-3, and he was only two points away from the title as he got to 30-0.
But De Minaur reeled off the next three points consecutively to break back and put the final set back on serve.
However, Davidovich Fokina kept fighting despite De Minaur's comeback and earned three championship points on the Australian's serve.
But De Minaur saved all three championship points, one with a lob that landed in by millimetres, to eventually hold serve to make it 5-5.
With the match eventually going to a tiebreaker, De Minaur kept his foot on the throttle, having his nose in front all the way through to win the breaker 7-3 and secure his third ATP 500 title.