#NextGenATP star Mensik becomes youngest Mallorca match winner
pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jakub-mensik/m0ni/overview'Jakub Mensik/a made tournament history Tuesday at the Mallorca Championships, knocking off defending champion a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/christopher-eubanks/e865/overview'Christopher Eubanks/a to become the youngest match-winner at the ATP 250. The 18-year-old earned a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 result for his first grass-court win./p
pMensik joins 19-year-old a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alex-michelsen/m0qi/overview'Alex Michelsen/a, who is into the quarter-finals, as the only teen winners in the event's main draw./p
p"For me it's a good result," he said in his on-court interview. "Obviously after difficult weeks, suffering with the injury, I'm happy to compete again. Back on grass with a 'W', I'm happy and I will be pushing more for the next round."/p
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pMensik missed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/roland-garros/520/overview'Roland Garros/a through injury but is now finding form on the grass behind his powerful serve. He hit 12 aces and won 84 per cent (38/45) of his first-serve points in his first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Eubanks, according to Infosys ATP Stats. He will next meet a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/fabio-fognini/f510/overview'Fabio Fognini/a for a place in the quarter-finals./p
pEubanks was bidding to become the first player to successfully defend the Mallorca title./p
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pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/roberto-bautista-agut/bd06/overview'Roberto Bautista Agut/a advanced to his third Mallorca quarter-final in as many appearances with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 upset of second seed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/ugo-humbert/hh26/overview'Ugo Humbert/a. The Spaniard earned his 40th Top 20 win mdash; and his first since beating a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/daniil-medvedev/mm58/overview'Daniil Medvedev/a last year in Halle mdash; with the result. After dropping out of the Top 110 in the PIF ATP Rankings for the first time since 2012 this week, the 36-year-old can re-enter the Top 100 with two more victories./p
pFormer college stars a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/adam-walton/w09e/overview'Adam Walton/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/paul-jubb/j0a4/overview'Paul Jubb/a also earned wins early in Tuesday's action. Walton, the 2021 NCAA doubles champion with the Tennessee Volunteers, beat a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/yannick-hanfmann/h997/overview'Yannick Hanfmann/a 7-5, 6-2. Jubb, the 2019 NCAA singles champion with South Carolina, scored a 6-1, 6-2 result against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/maximilian-marterer/mn13/overview'Maximilian Marterer/a. The qualifiers will square off for a place in the quarter-finals./p
pMichelsen has already advanced to the quarters after earning his second win of the week, a 7-6(5), 6-4 upset of third seed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/adrian-mannarino/me82/overview'Adrian Mannarino/a. The #NextGenATP American will next meet a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sebastian-ofner/o513/overview'Sebastian Ofner/a, who scored an upset of his own, 6-3, 7-5 against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/luciano-darderi/d0fj/overview'Luciano Darderi/a./p
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