MADRID, 9 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Spanish tennis players Pablo Carreño and Roberto Bautista have overcome their first round debuts in the Montreal tournament (Canada), sixth Masters 1,000 of the season, against the Italian Matteo Berrettini (6-3, 6-2) and the American Marcos Giron (7-6(5), 6-3), respectively, while Pedro Martínez said goodbye after losing to Frenchman Gaël Monfils (7-6(4), 3-6, 6-2).
On a day marked by rain and against a Berrettini – number 14 in the world – quite lacking in competitive rhythm, the Asturian showed a solid game and did not have to face any ‘break’ ball against in the hour and 18 minutes that lasted the crash.
The Spaniard, ranked 23rd in the world, managed to break his opponent’s serve in the eighth game of the opening set after wasting his first two break chances on his first return.
Already in the second set, Berrettini fended off two break chances from Carreño, but he gave in in the third and seventh games to offer victory to the Spaniard, who will face in the next round the winner of the duel between the Italian Fabio Fognini and Danish Holger Rune.
Roberto Bautista from Castellón also advanced against Marcos Giron in a match stopped for hours by rain. The number 18 in the ATP ranking extinguished the brilliant start of the North American (3-0) and, with two ‘breaks’, forced sudden death, where he managed to prevail.
Just after breaking his opponent’s serve again at the start of the second set (1-2), the match was stopped. After the break, both tennis players kept their services and Bautista was able to take the victory to meet the American Jenson Brooksby.
On the contrary, Pedro Martínez has been eliminated against the Frenchman Gaël Monfils. The man from Alzira, number 53 in the ATP ranking, started 2-0 and had a serve to win the first set 6-5, although the Frenchman neutralized the occasion with a counterbreak and ended up taking the partial in the tiebreak.
A solitary break in game six allowed Martinez to balance the contest, but Monfils won the last four games to end the fight after two hours and 45 minutes of play.
