the canadian Felix Auger Aliassimethird favorite, defeated the Serbian Myomir Kecmanovic through 6-1 and 6-0 and agreed Basel tournament quarterfinalswhere the Kazakh Alexander Bublik, executioner of the Spaniard Albert Ramos, awaits him.
The Canadian sealed his tenth straight victory against the Balkans, which he sealed in just 51 minutes to advance to the Swiss competition and bid for his third title in the last three weeks after those in Florence and Antwerp.
Toni Nadal’s pupil, who has lost nine finals until 2022 and is without any titles, has already collected three trophies, all in the current year. Rotterdam, Florence and Antwerp.
In the middle of the race for a place in the ATP Finals, the ninth tennis player on the circuit won for the fifth time in five matches against the player from Belgrade, twenty-eighth in the ATP ranking.
Auger Aliassime will look for the semifinals against the Kazakh Alexander Bublikwho previously defeated Spaniard Albert Ramos 6-3, 6-3.
Another Spaniard also made it to the second round, Robert Baptist, sixth favorite, who eliminated Britain’s Andy Murray with solvency by 6-3 and 6-2.
The player from Castellón, now 22nd in the ATP ranking, is looking for his third title of the season at the Swiss tournament after Kitzbuhel and Doha, and the twelfth of his career.
Bautista had no problem beating the Scottish player for the third time in five matches, once world number one, currently 49th in the world rankings and not winning a title since 2019, when he achieved in Antwerp the forty-sixth success in his long and brilliant path.
Murray, who after undergoing two hip surgeries and having to play with a prosthesis wants to return to being competitive on the circuit, unsuccessfully played in the finals in Stuttgart and Sydney in 2022. However, he is not worried about Bautista , sealing his victory without hiccups.
The winner of the American clash will face Roberto Bautista in the quarterfinals Brandon Nakashima and the swiss Stanislas Wawrinka.
Source: La Verdad
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