Could the 2026 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Mallorca Championships end with Alejandro Davidovich Fokina’s long-sought title-winning moment?

The second-seeded Spaniard advanced to his sixth ATP Tour championship match on Friday with a hard-earned semi-final win at the grass ATP 250. Davidovich Fokina rallied past Fabian Marozsan 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 to become just the second home finalist in six editions of the Mallorca event. He will take on Ethan Quinn in the title showdown.

“Today was a difficult match,” Davidovich Fokina said in his on-court interview. “I knew that he was a very aggressive player. I had to play deep balls, because he was going to the net and was very dangerous. I restarted my mindset after the first set and said, ‘Okay, let’s try to break in the first game’, and just kept continuing. I think that was the key, to win the second set… I’m very happy with how I performed today.”

The No. 25 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, Davidovich Fokina is 0-5 in tour-level finals. The 27-year-old will like his chances of ending his title drought on Saturday if he can match the resilience he showed against Marozsan: Davidovich Fokina saved six of seven break points he faced against the Hungarian, according to Infosys ATP Stats.

In contrast to Davidovich Fokina, Quinn required just 56 minutes to book his championship-match spot in the Balearic Islands. The 22-year-old American charged past Nuno Borges 6-1, 6-2 to reach his first ATP Tour final, having not even reached a quarter-final prior to this week.

Quinn did not face a break point and won 81 per cent (22/27) of points behind his first serve against Portugal’s Borges, according to Infosys ATP Stats. He is the third American finalist in Mallorca tournament history, after Sam Querrey in 2021 (l. to Medvedev) and Christopher Eubanks in 2023 (d. Mannarino).