Bautista prevented another victory for Murray to enter the round of 16

Roberto Bautista built strong walls, physical and mental, to avoid andy murray star in another of his works. Spanish command, he did not stop threatening the British with a new return. More complete, the man from Castellón finished his victory with 6-1, 6-7 (7), 6-3 and 6-4 in 3h.29′.

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Rober, 34 years old and world number 25, is the Spanish survivor. He avoided being out of the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2002 US Open. He overcame a match “of a lot of nerves and tension” as Sir Murray, 35 and number 66, continued to impose as the former number 1, Grand Slam, Davis Cup and Olympian champion that he is.

Bautista entered the round of 16 in Melbourne for the fifth time, thirteenth in a Slam. And he wants more than a very open section of the draw, where he will compete with the Americans. First, on Monday, in front of tommy paul. If it goes to the quarterfinals, match Ben Shelton or JJ. Wolf A great opportunity for anyone who was a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2019, a course where he also produced his best result in Australia, a quarterfinal.

Murray paid the accrued ten and a half hours to raise the ‘match’ point Matteo Berrettini, raise both sleeves against the Thanasi Kokkinakisin a fight that ended at four in the morning, after 5h.45′ of combat.

That wear explains Bautista’s 6-1 halftime lead. It wasn’t long before Murray was activated, waking up to go up 4-2 from the Spaniard in the second set. The Dunblane player’s show, as much of his class as courage, began with the support of the Margaret Court Arena public since the center was occupied by the parallel Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov.

Murray won the second set, but Bautista didn’t stray from his script. A pre-tournament finalist at the Adelaide ATP, he was confident of his best state of form. And with a typical record, because it was his fourth consecutive victory against the British, who had been superior in the first three duels, before the Scotsman suffered a hip injury that led to the placement of a prosthesis that allowed him to continue competing afterwards. a previous failed operating room visit.