Roberto Bautista passed this Tuesday in the first round of the Halle tennis tournament (Germany), on grass, against Italian Andrea Vavassori 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and a quarter of play.
The departure of German Daniel Altmeier before his debut against Bautista led to a change of opponent for the player from Castellónwho won the change, because Altmeier is ranked 60 in the ATP and Vavassori 128 and the transalpine is not a real threat to the world number 23.
Both easily won their serves until Bautista broke for 5-3 and was then confirmed without difficulty in his service.
In the second round, the player from Castellón had two breaking balls in the fifth game and another in the seventh, which Vavassori saved, until Bautista finally prevailed in the ninth, 5-4, and closed again on his serve , it’s time to white.
The one in Halle is one of the tournaments where Bautista has usually left a good impression throughout his career. Except when he lost in the first round in 2021, in all his participations he reached at least the quarterfinals: quarterfinals in 2017, 2019 and 2022 and semifinals in 2018.
His next opponent, in the round of 16, is the American Brandon Nakashima54 of the rank.
the russian Daniil Medvedev is the first seed of the tournamentleading Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Source: La Verdad
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