Barnabas Zapata, Roberto Carballes and Alexander Davidovich join now Carlos Alcaraz and the number of Spaniards classified for the 3rd round of Masters 1,000 on clay in Rome. Davidovich was the last to seal his bruise after losing Guido Pella by 6-0 and 7-6 (4). The man from Malaga will be looking for a place in the round of 16 against the Russian on Monday Andrei Rublev.
Davidovich had a huge start to the tournament and in the first set he signed the donut with authority, making his intentions clear for the tournament in Rome.
Pella reacted to the second stake and the Spaniard’s match became complicated in the second set which was decided by a tie-break after both surrendered a serve.
In the final tiebreaker, Davidovich was more solid and took advantage of the Argentine’s mistakes to seal his access to the third round, where he will face Russian Andrey Rublev, sixth favorite to win the tournament.
Zapata defeated the Australian this Saturday Jason Kubler in two sets, by 6-4 and 6-1. The Spaniard did not start the match well, giving away his first two serves, but was able to gradually recover to return the score and eventually take the set after three breaks.
Zapata leveled up in the second set and was more solid from the baseline and on her serve, quickly cruising to victory with a break on her first serve.
The Australian, number 66, could do little against the efficiency of a Zapata who was sentenced to another bankruptcy in the sixth game, to make it 5-1, which he combined with his serve to seal the pass to third round where it can be measured in russian Daniel Medvedevthird seed
For his part, Carballés surprised the English daniel evans in the second round of the Masters 1,000 in Rome with a victory in three sets, by 7-6, 5-7 and 6-4, after almost four hours of play, specifically in 3h.46′.
It was a very tough match, with long points and mistakes at key moments that lasted three hours and forty-eight minutes before ending the victory of the Spaniard, world number 51.
And that did not start well, he gave his first serve and put himself on the scoreboard 1-4 against the world number 24, who however did not know how to close the set and saw how the Spaniard responded and grew in each game, will come. back and put himself at 6-5 and serve in favor.
But after a game in which Carballés wasted three set balls and Evans five break points, the Briton broke and extended the stake to a ‘tie-break’ with Carballés more solid.
After an hour and a half of the first set, equality remained on the court and, despite both struggling at times, neither wanted to give up. The Spaniard lasted until the eleventh game, where, at 5-5, he lost his serve and the Englishman closed the set on him after one hour and twenty minutes.
The third set, which lasted almost an hour, was also heading for a ‘tie-break’ but Carballés managed to break when he was 5-4 up, sealing a hard-fought qualification for the third round if where he will meet. the Croatian Borna Coric.
Source: La Verdad
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