Tomas Berdych wins the BMW Open

The scores were 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5).

"All the matches were quite long, but (I won) the tournament," the fourth-seeded Berdych said.

Before Sunday, he topped France's Jeremy Chardy 6-1, 5-7, 6-2; two-time major champion Lleyton Hewitt 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) in a match that lasted nearly 2 1/2 hours and German crowd favorite Andreas Beck 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).

Berdych and Youzhny have met three times this season and Berdych took a 2-1 lead with Sunday's win.

He earned a $95,000 champion's check.

Youzhny was playing in his second Munich final, having lost to Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber in the 2007 title match.

"It has been a tough year for me trying to find my game, but it looks like I'm on the right track now," he said.

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