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“It helps having people there supporting me. Even though we’d beaten them twice this is the finals and we knew it could go either way.”

Resuming 13-11 up, the Welshman took the first two frames with half centuries before Trump responded with his 106th century of a fruitful campaign, which has yielded six appearances in finals.

He is the first Englishman to reach the final of the Madrid Open and the second Briton after Scotland's Andy Murray, who appeared in three finals and won two titles.

“This is for football to get me faster,” he said before running the 100 meters at the Thursday’s Mission League track and field finals on Thursday at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame.

It marked the sixth consecutive finals clash between the teams and it was the closest margin in that span mostly because of the reflexes of Royals goalie Brandon De La Rosa, who made 20 saves.