Masters 1,000 | Bautista comes back and gets into the second round for the fourth time

Roberto Bautista has been at such a high level for a long time that he does not have to play to the best of his potential to win games. This Sunday one that had gone uphill and looked bad before Jan-Lennard Struff, an uncomfortable rival who embroidered him in the first set, but then had to surrender to the combination of attack and consistency of the Spanish, who won by 4-6, 6-3 and 6-2 in 1h: 51. Bautista reaches the knockout stages of the Miami Masters 1,000 for the fourth time in the last five years and will face American serving giant John Isner for a quarter-final position., who beat the Canadian Auger-Aliassime (double 7-6 (5)). “My approach will be to try to make breaks, because I accept that I am a player who does. So I'll have to add more than him. He is very good at playing here, so it will be difficult, “said the seventh seed.

Roberto went from less to more and in the second round he multiplied his winning shots and halved the unforced errors (he finished with 30 and 15) to take control of the match and hammer the racket and the confidence of the 30-year-old German and 42nd with whom he already had a positive balance of 3-1 (4-1 now). The Castellón did not despair at the physical display of his rival, who played very good tennis in the first half of the duel.

From 4-2 in that second set, Bautista was much superior and although at the beginning of the third quarter he added a break and then gave up his serve for the second time, added two more breaks to his stats to clinch the victory quite calmly. Now curves will come his way, but he has a great opportunity to go far in this tournament marked by the absence of the Big Three.

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