Calviá (Mallorca), Jul 1 (EFE).- The American tennis player Christopher Eubanks (77th player in the world) has won the first ATP tournament of his career by defeating the French Adrián Mannarino (43rd) 6-1, 6-4 in 1 hour and 4 minutes in the final of the Mallorca Championships, category 250 ATP Tour held this Saturday on the center court of the Calviá Country Club.
With his victory, Eubanks, 27, succeeds the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in the list of winners of the Mallorcan tournament, the only one played in Spain on a natural grass surface.
Likewise, he is the second American tennis player to win an ATP tournament on grass this season after Frances Tiafoe, who won in Stuttgart on June 16.
Eubanks only needed 24 minutes to win the first set (6-1) against an erratic 35-year-old Mannarino, surpassed by the 13 winners and the 12 direct points won with the first service by his rival, who had in this facet a one hundred percent effective.
Supported by a solid game from the bottom of the court, and being very precise when going up to the net, it was enough for the American to break the French serve once to prevail in the second set (6-4), lift the trophy and add his first ATP title.
Mannarino, who was playing his twelfth final on the ATP circuit, improving on the semifinals reached last year, also in Mallorca, raised his tennis level in the final stretch, but it was not enough to force the third set.