Nikolay Davydenko won his first ATP title this year after breezing past Paul Henri-Mathieu 6-4 6-2 in the German Open final in Hamburg.

The secondseed won five break points as he made light work of Mathieu, who was seeded 13th.

The Russian said: "When you win the tournament then you always say it's the best week because before I did not win any tournaments. It was semi-finals, quarter-finals and once I got to the final and won the tournament. It's a very good week for me.

"I'm very happy because I've won 15 ATP World Tour titles. I was surprised at the beginning as Mathieu started playing very well. I started fighting to come back and for me it was very good play to win the first set 6-4. Then every point, every game was important and I won 6-2 (in the second set)."

The beaten Mathieu said: "I think he played a great match today. He was very solid. I think I would have needed a bit more energy to win today. I think I was less aggressive than yesterday. I left pretty much (all my) energy on the court yesterday and to beat a guy like Nikolay you have to be 100 per cent physically."

Prior to the match, Davydenko had not won a title in over a year, when he triumphed in Warsaw in June 2008. He was hampered through the first several months of 2009 by a heel injury suffered in his first tournament of the year in Chennai.