Alexandre Müller

But in the second set, there was this moment where Juanpi's forehand winners almost helped him broke for the second set in the 10th game where he had a forehand winner to set up his set point if i'm not mistaken but it didn't happen as mate massively held 2-5 all and fast forward to the tiebreaker one mini broke to 2-0 through a working foley but there were some forehand errors that initially returned the favor before Mate's forehand winners not only did create his match point when he held 265 but also converted his match point to take the second set 76 tiebreak score 75 to win his second career challenger title with a professional top 200 debut or somewhere along those lines in the live rankings by the end of the tournament Last but not least, for the third week, it was the Mallorca Challenger held in the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manakor, where Felix Balshaw defeated alternate Iñaki Montes de la Torre 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Felix became the runner-up of the Clay Leong Challenger and the Targu Mures Challenger, only dropped a set in the quarterfinal against fifth seed Billy Harris, while also notably stunning second seed Alexander Muller in the second round, while Iñaki notably knocked out defending champion Daniel Rincon , his only straight set win of the tournament, securing likely Australian Open qualifying round spot this early with this run.

This match was very tight in terms of point construction but it was Felix's sustained hitting that made the difference especially from the second set onwards.

Inaki looked anticipative in the first set and his net game also counts in that sense through some follies at the setup but Felix took advantage of Inaki's erroneous start to the second set and played more freely since then with a folly doubling his break to 4-1 and he almost broke for the set with a drop and pass combination alongside a forehand winner somewhere but it did not happen he still took the second set 6-2 but it was felix's net finishes to his point construction that ultimately secured his maiden challenger title with 6-3 in the final set and who knows with this title run felix could sneak through the next gen finals who knows and now we are heading to last week's challenger finals there were seven events two of them were 125 level events and all of them ran through the second week of the us open we start with the third pontiac challenger where 3rd seed Ilya Simakin defeated 8th seed Arthur Weber 6-4, 7-6 tiebreak score 7-5.