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Alcaraz triumphed after three hours and 21 minutes - 6:4, 2:6, 7:6(1), 6:3.
The Spaniard won the first Grand Slam title of his career in the first final he played, while Ruud lost his second final, after Roland Garros, to Nadal this year.
Alcaraz (19) became world no.1 and thus made history, as he was the first teenager to do so, and also the youngest ever to do so.

HBO Max, the new streaming platform of WarnerMedia, arrives in Bulgaria on March 8, 2022, and from that date will replace the current HBO GO platform. HBO Max offers a whole new world of high-quality entertainment from Warner Bros., HBO, DC and Cartoon Network, Max Originals and many other content producers.

Vodafone Greece announced on Monday it has scooped the exclusive rights to the premium TV content of US giant HBO for its VTV cable TV subscription service.

This 'defection' of HBO's content from Nova's service is the second major blow for the troubled satellite platform after it lost the rights to soccer's Champions League to Cosmote TV.

Leading pay-TV platform Cosmote TV on Tuesday announced it has signed a two-year partnership extension with the world's biggest basketball league, the NBA.

With an enhanced agreement, Cosmote TV will air a greater number of NBA matches on Cosmote Sport channels, while all games will also be available on demand through the Cosmote TV GO and Cosmote Replay TV services.

Nova, the satellite pay-TV platform of listed telecoms company Forthnet, announced on Thursday the introduction of a pioneering service that allows its triple-play customers (Nova3play) to have full unlimited access to its library of movies, TV series, etc, for free by connecting their satellite receiver to their Internet router.

Bulgaria's competition watchdog has fined pay-TV services provider Bulsatcom for its failure to provide customers with exact information on a new promo package it is offering.

D-Smart, a subsidiary of Turkey's Do?an TV Holding and a leading digital platform, has inked a substantial multi-year first-run Pay TV deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. 

Listed Greek telecom firm Forthnet on Tuesday announced it has maintained its 2014 group revenues stable (down 0.1 percent) from 2013, against a backdrop of tough competition and a drop in the fees of several telecom companies.

By Vangelis Mandravelis

Vodafone and Wind Hellas aim to create a major rival to fixed-line telephony market leader OTE through the absorption of Forthnet and Cyta Hellas, which would start with a subscription base of 2 million clients as well as over 500,000 pay-TV subscribers.