the russian Andrei Rublev He suffered this Friday to get rid of the Spaniards Alexander Davidovich in second round of the Masters 1,000 in Rome in two sets, for 7-6(8) and 6-3.
The Spaniard, number 34 in the world, presented a battle. Especially in the first set where he managed to save five ‘break’ balls and recover from a lost serve, breaking the next to bring the stakes to a ‘tie-break’ more than equal.
In a long tiebreaker, they both exchanged breaks, but the Russian ended up winning, signing five, conceding more than one.
In the second set, Rublev picked up the pace and managed to reduce Davidovich to an early ‘break’ where he put victory on course.
In the round of 16, the Russian, number 6 in the world, will face the German yannik hanfmannwho eliminated the Italian Marco Cecchinato.
Source: La Verdad
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