Davidovich saved a black day for Spanish tennis at the US Open

Alejandro Davidovich’s victory this Wednesday in the second round saved the honor in a day at the US Open of little luck for the Spaniards and that ended with the elimination of Sara Sorribes (55), Rebeka Masarova (71), Roberto Carballés (63) and Bernabé Zapata (76).

Davidovich and Carlos Alcaraz (1)who plays in the second round on Thursday against South African Lloyd Harris (177), They are the only two Spaniards still in action at Flushing Meadows (there are no representatives left in the women’s draw).

world number 21, Davidovich beats Argentine Juan Manuel Cerúndolo with authority (93) and he reached the third round of the ‘big’ in New York without giving up a set in his first two duels.

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Davidovich was very solid against the youngest of the Cerúndolo brothers and took over the game by 6-1, 6-4 and 6-3 in one hour and 41 minutes.

The Malaga native came off another resounding first round victory over American Marcos Giron (62) 6-4, 6-4 and 6-2 in one hour and 56 minutes.

In the next round a very tough rival awaits him: the American Tommy Paul (14)who on Wednesday lifted two sets from Russian Roman Safiullin (60) and defeated Davidovich in his two matches this year (Australian Open and Miami Masters 1,000).

Davidovich’s victory in the afternoon session gave a sigh of relief to the Spanish fans, who in the morning they accumulate failures without rest and they saw their countrymen lose four in a row.

Faced with the face of Monday, when the Spanish tennis players won five of their six crosses, this Wednesday the cross came with only one win in five games.

Undoubtedly, the most complicated duel was for Zapata, who fell on the center court of the Arthur Ashe Stadium against Novak Djokovic (2) 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in one hour and 59 minutes.

Djokovic also has a fairly clear path left for his side of the box after Norwegian Casper Ruud (5) and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (7) crashed in the second round this Tuesday.

For his part, Carballés, who just achieved a spectacular victory by eliminating the Danish Holger Rune (4) in the first round, could not beat the Russian Aslan Karatsev (77), who knocked him out 6-2 , 4-6, 6-3 and 7-6(4) in three hours and 23 minutes.

Nor could he continue his great opening surprise over Masarovawho on Monday was none other than Greek Maria Sakkari (8) but lost in the second round against Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (64) 7-6(0) and 6-2 in one hour and 35 minutes

The same thing happened to Sorribeschampion of the WTA 250 in Cleveland last week and bid farewell to the US Open in the second round with a loss against Chinese Xinyu Wang (53) by 5-7, 6-3 and 6-4 in two hours and 52 minutes.