With a patience even more punishing than his baseline game, Leo Rosenberg won the seventh annual Oahu Club Honolulu Masters Championship on Saturday night, 6-2, 6-0 over Alex Aybar.

The scores looked like a tennis blowout, but the final lasted 1 hour, 22 minutes. The opening game of the second set was nearly 20 minutes alone, with six deuces and a series of monstrously long points.

"He ran me down. I was feeling it for the next two games," said Aybar, 32. "Then I recovered, but it was a little too late. That first game took a lot out of me."

Rosenberg, originally from Boston, came here three years ago to play for the University of Hawaii. Last season he played No. 2 behind Dennis Lajola, who convinced him to come to UH.

Rosenberg earned All-WAC second-team singles honors the past two years, and settled in so well he will celebrate his first wedding anniversary today with wife Ekaterina.

He has decided to focus on graduating and pursuing a master’s degree and will not play his final year. But his win at the Masters, which is now the Hawaii Sectional title, gives him a wild card into January’s $50,000 Honolulu Challenger. It will be his second. He won here two years ago, then advanced to the Challenger’s second round.

He also is eligible to collect the $500 first prize. He donated it to Hawaiian Isles Tennis.

Aybar, who won $300, is originally from the Dominican Republic. He played for the University of Arizona a decade ago and moved here "because I liked it." He coaches juniors with David Chang and said he hadn’t played a tournament in eight years.

He was seeded eighth at the Oahu Club and got to the final by upsetting top-seeded Ikaika Jobe in the semifinals. But in the final, he was on the run from the opening moments.

"I was always on the run," Aybar said. "And I couldn’t find his backhand, ever. He ran around it and hit his forehand really good."

Rosenberg did everything well, attributing his relentless performance to improved footwork and wrist surgery that repaired his broken backhand.

He broke Aybar’s serve in the first game and never trailed. But almost every point was a battle, with Aybar slicing balls silently and Rosenberg bashing from the baseline, always balanced, never going for too much.

"I didn’t know much about him, but I saw him yesterday when he played Ikaika," Rosenberg said. "I knew if I tried to blast every ball and be too aggressive then he was going to get the hang of it. If I wanted to win, I had to play really patient. I was comfortable with it."

Aybar, who earned a wild card into the Challenger qualifying, never had a break point against Rosenberg and still the first set lasted 47 minutes. Rosenberg just kept coming.

"I got to every ball and I managed to play mostly my forehand," he said. "With this, I was able to dictate the points. I was able to grind on every single ball."

After he won the 18-point opening game of the second set, Rosenberg felt "cooled down in terms of stress." That helped his serve — he had four late aces — and every other phase of his game was already in a good place.

"He had me on the defense from the start," Aybar said. "We contested a lot of points, but if he had me on the run he would end up winning."