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The first set was the whole match. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina edged a tiebreak to take the opener and never let the final tighten again, closing out Ethan Quinn 7-6(4), 6-3 to lift the Mallorca Championships trophy. The breakthrough came one set after Quinn had reached the final without dropping a set across his last two rounds — the run finally stalled against the one player in the draw playing cleaner on serve.
For Davidovich Fokina, the title caps a week that ran straight through the seeds: he stripped the bracket of its top anchor en route and closed it out the same way he opened, without surrendering a third set in either of his final two matches. Quinn settles for runner-up, his first set drop of the week arriving when it cost him the Mallorca crown.
The final is set, and the kid got there the easy way. Down only briefly, Ethan Quinn needed 13 games to put away Nuno Borges, 6-1, 6-2 — a semifinal that never threatened to go three. Quinn hasn't dropped a set in either of the last two rounds, and the dominant return of Nuno Borges on the day was the lack of one.
The other half took longer. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina dropped the opener 7-5 before turning the match around against Fabian Marozsan, 2-6, 4-6 across the final two sets to book the title match. Marozsan couldn't sustain the level that won him a tight first set, ceding nine of the last 16 games. Davidovich Fokina is the bankable name left standing — he's now beaten the top seed and a quarterfinal threat back-to-back — and meets a Quinn who hasn't been pushed.
The last bankable name in the draw is gone. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina knocked out top seed Grigor Dimitrov, 6-3, 6-3, never facing a third set and stripping the slate of its biggest fantasy anchor. Davidovich Fokina was the cleaner player on serve in both stanzas; Dimitrov couldn't manufacture the break he needed in either.
The other three quarterfinals split into routine and grind. Fabian Marozsan moved through Kecmanovic in two, and Nuno Borges edged Luciano Darderi 7-6(1), 6-4, the first-set tiebreak the only real swing point. The day's marathon belonged to Ethan Quinn, who recovered from a set down against Vit Kopriva — dropping the opener 5-7 before taking the next two 7-5, 6-3 to reach the semis.
The qualifier story stalled in the Round of 16: Ignacio Buse, fresh off knocking out Tsitsipas, couldn't get past Vit Kopriva after taking the first set close, fading 5-7, 1-6 as Vit Kopriva ran away with eight of the last nine games. The most bankable name left in the draw is Grigor Dimitrov, who dispatched Abedallah Shelbayh 6-2, 6-4 without facing a break point of consequence — the cleanest two-setter of the day.
Adam Walton, who'd handled Kyrgios on Day 2, ran into Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and dropped a tight one, 4-6, 5-7, the lone Spaniard surviving to the quarters. The day's one three-setter went to Ethan Quinn, who recovered a second-set tiebreak loss to Murphy Cassone and closed it 6-3 in the decider.
The headline casualty on Day 3 was Stefanos Tsitsipas, who went out to qualifier Ignacio Buse in straight sets, 7-6(4), 6-3 — a first-set tiebreak slip that never got repaired. Buse is the story for fantasy rosters: a Round of 32 scalp of the slate's biggest name, earned without dropping serve in the second.
Elsewhere the form players held. Grigor Dimitrov needed a second-set tiebreak but saw off Marc Polmans after a 6-1 opener, while Fabian Marozsan was the cleanest winner of the Round of 16, brushing past Alejandro Tabilo 6-2, 6-3. Miomir Kecmanovic had to work hardest, dropping the opening set to Lorenzo Sonego before turning it around across a tiebreak and a 6-4 third. Nuno Borges and Luciano Darderi also moved through in straights.
Nick Kyrgios couldn't make his grass-court return count, dropping his opener to Adam Walton 6-3, 6-4 — no break recovered, no set point earned. Adam Walton advances on the back of a clean two-set hold, the most fantasy-relevant result on a Round of 32 slate that otherwise rewarded the survivors of long afternoons.
Two of those went the distance on tiebreaks. Fabian Marozsan erased a one-set deficit to edge Molcan 2-6, 7-6, 7-6, winning both breakers after losing the opener at a break down. Miomir Kecmanovic followed the same script against Antoine Ghibaudo, dropping the first set 2-6 before closing it out in a third-set tiebreak. Jan-Lennard Struff also needed three to get past Landaluce, surrendering the second 6-1 before holding for 7-5 in the decider.