JAMAICA’S tennis standout Blaise Bicknell produced a scintillating performance to capture his first-ever senior ITF M25 title after a come-from-behind victory over American James Tracy in Canada on Sunday.

The 21-year-old Bicknell, who is Jamaica’s number one men’s tennis player, defeated Tracy 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the final in Laval, Quebec.

Bicknell, coached by Mel Spence, produced 11 aces in the match as he stormed from behind to record the biggest victory of his career.

“This feels really incredible and I am very happy at the moment; words can’t explain how I am feeling right now,” Bicknell, who turned a professional player earlier this summer, told the Jamaica Observer shortly after the victory.

“This is my third ITF Pro finals and I lost in the two previous, but this tournament was bigger than the last two previous tournaments and so this is my biggest result ever,” he said.

Bicknell recently won the bronze medal in tennis for Jamaica at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in El Salvador.

He noted that the victory over Tracy is further indication of his growth as a player.

“Coming off the CAC Games last week and getting the bronze medal for Jamaica, I believe that I can be a champion and so I came out in this tournament full of confidence and played better tennis — and I got a big victory,” he said.

The win moved Bicknell from 640 to 598 in the ITF men’s singles’ world ranking.

“This makes my rankings points doubled; so if I had 25 points before now, I am going to have 50 points and so this is very massive for me at the moment and I am going to continue to work hard and play good tennis,” he explained.

He said freshly crowned Wimbledon men’s singles’ champion Carlos Alcaraz has been an inspiration.

“This is certainly a massive for me because I was in college [University of Tennessee] and I just turned professional this summer and so my record so far is 15 wins and three losses. That has given me a lot of confidence to know that I can make it to where Carlos Alcaraz is one day,” Bicknell stated.

Alcaraz, the 20-year-old Spanish global star, won his second Grand Slam title on Sunday after beating one of the all-time greats Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final. After losing the first set, Alcaraz came back to win 1-6, 7-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in a match that lasted nearly five hours.