Roberto Bautista He had played three games in the ATP Cup. An interesting background after the forced fourteen-day quarantine and as a launch point towards the Australian Open.
However, the Castellón had been dragging problems in the abs, and has not been able to have his day in Melbourne Park, stumbling out in the Moldovan Radu Albot, who had his best day in this tournament, accounting for his second victory in four participations.
The Spanish, 32 years old and 13th in the world ranking, yielded to Albot, 31 years old and 85th, for 6-7 (1), 6-0, 6-4 and 7-6 (5) in 3h. 15 ‘. I miss the 0-6 received by Pepe Vendrell’s pupil, scoring 3 of 27 points. He also missed the opportunity to force a fifth set with a set ball at 5-3 40-30.
It was not the day of Bautista, who made 60 unforced errors against an uncomfortable opponent due to his punch. Albot added 40 errors, but he made up for them with his 51 winning strokes, only 33 by the Levantine.
The discomfort conditioned the performance of Bautista, who leaves this Grand Slam right away, after all the effort that this year represented traveling and playing in Australia.
