Roberto Bautista continues its good dynamics in Antwerp. The Spanish tennis player managed to win in three sets (3-6, 6-2, 7-6) in Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassimenumber 21 in the ranking, thus achieving an important victory to access the semifinals of the ATP 250 in Antwerp, in Belgium.
The rivalry was marked by the impressive state of form in which both tennis players arrived, meeting for the sixth time in their careers and with a favorable balance for Aliassime 3-2. The Canadian, however, started accurately and seriously, taking the first set 3-6.
However, the pace of the match changed starting in the second set and Bautista started to take the lead. The Spaniard took advantage of the Canadian’s unforced errors, something that forced him to take the initiative and take the second set.
In the last set, swords in style. Bautista, with everything in his favor to end the match, squandered a favorable 5-3 and gave life to Felix Auger-Aliassime who ended up forcing the tie-breakerwhere the Spaniard managed to tip the balance in his favour.
With this success, Bautista returns to a tournament semi-final for the first time since the ATP 500 in Halle in 2023where he fell into Russian Andrey Rublev. Now, the current 60th in the ATP ranking awaits an opponent for this Saturday’s semifinal, which will come from the match between the Australian. Alex de Minaur and the french Hugo Gaston.
Source: La Verdad
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