Bautista and Davidovich convince and Carreño leaves in Rome

The day of this Tuesday at the 1,000 Masters in Rome could not have started better for the Spanish tennis players, since Roberto Bautista and Alejandro Davidovich are already in the second round of the Roman tournament.

Bautista, tenth seed, did not go through too much trouble to overcome American Tommy Paul, from the qualifying round, and whom he defeated 6-3 and 6-4 in one hour and 31 minutes.. Bautista was very solid on serve and also knew how to suffer in the most delicate moments, saving 5 of the six breaking balls that he had to face. In the second round, Bautista will face a tough nut to crack on clay, the Chilean Christian Garín.

For his part, Alejandro Davidovich demonstrated in Rome the great moment of form that he is going through. The man from Malaga gave the first surprise of the day in the Roman tournament after beating Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, sixteenth seed, 6-4, 7-6 (2) in one hour and 42 minutes. Davidovich knew how to suffer against the Bulgarian, who was unsuccessful in serving, and who stopped his attempt to react in the second set, where he managed to force the tie-break but where Davidovich was superior.

In the next round the malagueño Briton Cameron Norrie will be measured, who beat Spanish Roberto Carballés in two sets by a double 6-4. Norrie was more solid against a Carballés who did not take advantage of 5 of the six break balls that he had against the British.

Carreño leaves before taking on Nishikori

Another of the bad news for the Spanish participation was the abandonment of Pablo Carreño. The Spaniard retired due to injury before playing his second-round match against Kei Nishikori. In this way the Japanese goes to the round of 16 of the tournament, where he will face the winner of the match between Alexander Zverev and Hugo Dellien.