Stefanos Tsitsipas won his maiden trophy on the grass at the Mallorca Championships, beating Roberto Bautista Agut in the final of the ATP 250 tournament.
Both players made it to the final thanks to playing some inspired tennis throughout the week. Tsitsipas bested Ilya Ivashka, Marcos Giron, and Benjamin Bonzi to reach the final of the tournament.
Bautista Agut, on the other hand, could have played one more match, as he didn't have a first-round bye, but he didn't have to. He started by beating Taro Daniel, before his second-round opponent, Nick Kyrgios, withdrew from the tournament. The Spaniard then bested also Daniil Medvedev and Antoine Bellier.
The opening set started well for Tsitsipas who was waltzing across the court and winning points. The Spaniard had no answers as Tsitsipas cruised to a 4-0 lead.
After that, Bautista Agut went on a 3-0 run to pull back one break, but he was unable to complete the comeback in the first set. Tsitsipas won the first set 6-4 largely thanks to dominating on the Spaniard's second serve, winning 7 of 11 points.
The second set largely followed a similar pattern, with Tsitsipas taking an early break to lead 3-1. Bautista Agut was able to battle back, and he was almost able to completely turn the match around after breaking Tsitsipas's serve at 4-3 to take a 5-3 lead.
The Spaniard won the second set 6-3 to send the match to the third set. Tsitsipas did not play that badly, but Bautista Agut won every single important rally in the second set.
The third set set opened well for both with neither having much trouble winning their first service games. Tsitispas won his second service game in the third set too, and Bautista was up 40-0 in his second, but committed a few mistakes to make it deuce.
Another miss gave Tsitsipas a break point, and a lucky net bounce converted it. From there, Tsitsipas largely cruised behind his serve and forehand, which helped him in this match.
That was until he actually served for the match. When he had to close it out, he lost his serve, which meant that a tie-break had to decide this match. Tsitsipas was still the better player, winning the tie-break 7-2 to win the match 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(2) to lift his maiden grass-court title.
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