The Spanish Carlos Taberner went to the quarterfinals of the Nur-Sultán tournament (Kazakhstan) after coming back against Belarusian Egor Gerasimov, 5-7, 6-7-6 (5) and 7-5, in three hours and twenty-two minutes.
The Valencian tennis player was able to recover from a first set where he made many unforced errors and was very fragile in service.
Taberner won the second set in an unpredictable tie-break, which gave him a high spirits to grow in his game during the third set and so on. closed the match with a break in service by the Belarusian tennis player when the third set was 6-5.
The Spanish tennis player will face this Thursday the Kazakh and local idol Alexander Bublik, second seeded.
Davidovich, eliminated
In Metz, Davidovich said goodbye after an eternal game – almost three hours – and after having won the first set by a clear 6-0. Nevertheless, Basilashvili He woke up to score the second with a 6-4 and closed his victory in the tie-break of the third round by 7-6 (4).
For its part, Sara Sorribes was also eliminated in the round of 16 in Ostrava, leaving the Czech tournament table without Spanish representatives.. The 24-year-old tennis player from Castellón said goodbye after falling in two sets against the Swiss Belinda Bencic (6-2 and 6-3) in an hour and a half of the game.