Roberto Bautista and Gael Monfils They will play one of the matches in the quarterfinals of the tournament Mallorca Championships after losing Ugo Humbert (3-6, 6-3, 6-4) and Roberto Carballes (6-3, 6-4), respectively, in the rivalry that took place this Tuesday between Spanish and French tennis players on the grass courts of the Santa Ponça Country Club.
Bautista, ranked 122nd in the ATP rankings, needed two and a half hours to defeat Frenchman Humbert, second seed in the Mallorcan tournament and number 16 player in the world.
The man from Castellón, a finalist in 2022, surrendered the first set (3-6) in 36 minutes, overcome by a quick adaptation to the grass and the strong first serve of the Frenchman, who hit 12 aces in whole fight
Bautista started the comeback by winning the second set in 54 minutes (6-3), and ended it by winning the third and final set 6-4, which lasted an hour, after taking advantage of the fifth match point he has.
The Frenchman Gaël Monfils (ATP 50), for his part, did not give an option to the Spaniard Roberto Carballés (ATP 65), whom he defeated in one hour and eighteen minutes relying on the effectiveness of his first serve, where he won 87 percent of the points.
The Parisian tennis player, 37 years old and with 12 ATP titles under his belt, hit 9 aces to defeat the Tenerife native in the match played on the center court of Mallorca Country Club and closed the second day.
Monfils won the stands by launching himself into a spectacular iron for a ball on one of the second set points, an action he repeated on courts around the world and earned a standing ovation from public.
The surprise of the day was the American withdrawal Christopher Eubanks (ATP 42), current champion of the Mallorca Championships, after falling in the 1st round against the Czech Jakub Mensik (ATP 85) in three sets: 3-6, 6-3 and 6-1.
Other results: Adam Walton (Australia) beat Yannick Hanfmann (Germany) 7-5, 6-2; Paul Jubb (Great Britain) beat Maximilian Marterer (Germany) 6-1, 6-2; Alex Michelsen (United States) defeated Adrian Mannarino (France) 7-6 (5), 6-4; Sebastian Ofner (Austria) defeated Luciano Darderi (Italy), 6-3 and 7-5.
Source: La Verdad
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