MADRID 6 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first round of Indian Wells, first 1000 masters of the season, left on Wednesday a pickle of Spanish tennis players with the goodbye of Pedro Martínez, Jaume Munar and Roberto Carbalés.
After doing semifinals in Buenos Aires and a bad step through Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile, Martínez could barely feel the hard surface in the Californian desert, bent by the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan with a 6-3, 6-2 in an hour of meeting.
The Valencian, who had achieved the second round in Indian Wells in his previous three participations, ran the same fate as Munar and Carballés shortly before. The Balearic, who played the semifinal in Dallas recently, fit a painful defeat (6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (3)) before the Japanese Kei Nishikori.
Munar said goodbye to his premiere of the first 1000 Masters of the course for the fifth time of six editions disputed, denied this time by a Nishikori who frustrated his attempted attempt in the third set. The Balearic was two points in the victory, but could not avoid a ‘tie-break’ where the Asian tennis player was superior.
Meanwhile, Carballés fit another bitter defeat in his lazy start of 2025 against the Australian Christopher O’Connell 6-3, 0-6, 6-1. The Granada, who forced a third set where he barely competed after fitting two ‘breaks’ and looking with a hard 4-0 against, thus linked his fifth tournament without going out of debut.