Roberto Bautista, exempt from playing the first round due to his status as the first seed, he made his debut in the Montpellier ATP 250 with triumph over the French Sweep (113º). The man from Castellón closed the match on the fast track, in 66 minutes, for a overwhelming score of 6-0 and 6-3. His rival in the quarterfinals will be the French Ugo Humbert (32º).
Bautista, who reappeared in competition after his early elimination in the Australian Open, He regained his best tennis after several weeks of inactivity. The rival, of little pedigree, served the Castellón to pick up the rhythm of the competition in a tournament where he starts as a great favorite for the title. From the first moment he gave no option, he added one break after another to endorse a 'donut' to Barrere in the first set.
In the second set, the French managed to mask the result of the match, but not to cloud the manifest superiority of the Spanish on the track. Rober, as in the opening set, achieved an exit break for a 2-0 lead (eight consecutive games in total), which he did not let slip.
Davidovich also meets
The malagueño Alexander Davidovich will play the quarterfinals of the tennis tournament of Montpellier (France) after defeating the Polish on Thursday Hubert Hurkacz by 7-5 and 6-2.
Davidovich, 56 of the ATP classification, had already beaten Hurkacz (30) in their previous match and will be measured in the next round with Belarusian Egor Gerasimov, who beat the Slovenian Aljaz Bedene by 6-4 and 7-6 (4).
In another round of 16 clash, the German Peter Gojowczyk, coming from the previous phase, defeated the Czech Jiri vesely by 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4) and 6-3.