MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The tennis player from Castellón, Roberto Bautista, gave this Friday the first point in the Davis Cup playoff between Spain and Romania after beating Gabi Adrian Boitan with great authority in two sets 6-3, 6-1.
The local number one did not have excessive problems, except at the beginning of the duel, to break the resistance of the Romanian player, 721 in the ATP world ranking and with little experience, who was gradually undoing before the solidity shown by his rival in the clay of the Puente Romano Tennis Club in Marbella (Málaga).
However, the Davis Cup always gives opportunities to the theoretical inferior players and that is what Boitan grabbed, who began with more security on the court and risking more in his shots, especially with the right. Bautista, on the other hand, took a little longer to carburete, but the blank ‘break’ that he achieved in the fifth game ended up settling him, despite the fact that he still had to save a threatening 15-40 in the next game.
From there, the number 15 in the world, who barely made unforced errors, was much superior and closed the first set with another break. Another ‘break’ as soon as the second set began ended the Romanian’s resistance, which left the Spaniard free to add the first point. Carlos Alcaraz will now look for the second against Marius Copil.