The 95 Copa del Rey tennis starts this Tuesday in Huelva with the semifinals that will measure Roberto Bautista with Sergio Gutiérrez-Ferrol and Álex de Miñaur and Alejandro Davidovich, who aspire to become finalists in an edition commemorating the 130th anniversary of Recreativo de Huelva. The first duel on the central court of the Huelva club, dean of Spanish tennis, will be played starting at 7:30 p.m. Bautista, number 12 in the ATP ranking, and Gutiérrez-Ferrol, a 31-year-old from Alicante who won the trophy in 2018 in the format Future scoring for the ATP circuit and which is now the 722 in the world.
Bautista, 32, from Castellón, is the favorite in this match after signing a great 2019, in which he shone especially reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon. The match will be played to the best of three sets and, in the case of tied 6 games in the decisive round, there will be a super-tiebreaker of the best of 10 points. At the end of this match, the Spanish-born Australian Álex de Miñaur, 21 years old and number 26 in the ATP ranking, and Alejandro Davidovich, of the same age, will fight in the second semifinal, under the same conditions, for another place in the final. number 97 in the world and born in Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga).
De Miñaur has had three ATP World Tour 250 titles in three years in the elite and was able to defeat a 'top-10' like the Japanese Kei Nishikori in the third round of the United States Open in 2019. Davidovich, junior champion of Wimbledon in 2017 and who participated in the Copa del Rey in its Future format, reached three ATP Challenger finals last year before winning the title in Seville. The final will be played this Wednesday from 8:30 p.m. to the best of three sets, without super-tiebreaker and televised live on Canal Sur. The organization of the tournament has put in place safety and hygiene measures against the covid-19, so the temperature will be taken for all attendees, the use of a mask will be mandatory and the capacity will be reduced to 600 spectators so that they can maintain the physical distance between them.