Tennis.-Bautista says goodbye to Cincinnati in the first round after losing to Dimitrov

MADRID, 17 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Spanish tennis player Roberto Bautista has been eliminated this Tuesday at the first exchange in the Cincinnati tournament, sixth Masters 1,000 of the season, after losing against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in two sets (6-3 and 6-4) in a game that was resolved in 1 hour and 24 minutes of play.

Bautista has played five times in his career against Dimitrov and has lost four times. This Tuesday he could not change his luck in a duel that was conditioned by the spectacular success of his rival with the direct serve. Up to 16 ‘aces’ the Haskovo player signed for the 2 of the Spanish.

The Castellón -number 16 of the ATP- tried to recover in the second round, but Dimitrov -21st in the ranking- was especially accurate in the decisive points and had no problems to sentence his pass to the second round, get off Bautista and meet the Kazakh Aleksandr Búblik in the round of 32.