The Malaga-born Alejandro Davidovich debuted this Monday at the Dubai tournament with a victory over Moldovan Radu Albot, 6-4, 6-4.
The 2017 Wimbledon junior champion, who entered the list of participants after the withdrawal of Australian Nick Kyrgios, had a positive debut against Albot, 76 in the world, with whom he had never faced and who had reached the main draw played back from the previous phase, after the loss of the Swiss Stan Wawrinka, due to fatigue.
Davidovich, 52 of the ATP this week, needed an hour and 22 minutes to solve his first stumbling block in this tournament category 500. Now it will be measured with one of the seeds of the event, Serbian Filip Krajinovic, 33rd in the world, and 14th favorite in Dubai.
Bernabé Zapata surpasses John Millman
Together with Davidovich he also managed to advance to the next round the Valencian Bernabé Zapata, who managed to overcome the Australian John Millman, number 40 in the ATP ranking by a double 6-4 after one hour and 21 minutes.
Zapata managed to break Millman's serve in the fifth game of the first heat to be intractable to serve. and take the first set. Millman reacted in the second set, where he reached a 1-4 advantage, but Zapata chained five games in a row with his serve and two service breaks from Millman to close the set and the match 6-4.
In the second round Zapata, who entered the final table after overcoming the previous one, He will face Italian Lorenzo Sonego, 17th seed for the title.