Davis Cup: Bautista liquidates Boitan and gives the first point to Spain against Romania

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They won 6-3 and 6-1, at the start of the tie that takes place in Puente Romano

Roberto Bautista returns a ball.EFE
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In the first round of the 2018 World Group, at the Puente Romano Tennis Club, still under the old Davis Cup system, Cameron Norrie lifting of the adverse sets a Robert Baptist and complicated Spain’s tie against Great Britain. Norrie was then an unknown player trying to make a place for himself on the circuit playing for a university in the United States. Today he is number 12 in the world and recently played against Nadal the final of the ATP 500 in Acapulco.

Gaby’s case Adrian Boitan It doesn’t look like it’s going to be the same. Also young, 22 years old, semi-soulless and growing up at a Texas university, the player from Constanza moved at the start with the freshness of someone who lives oblivious to pressure, but he could only come out with a decent result in the first set. Since Bautista broke in the sixth game, the differences between a proven tennis player, who has just won the tenth title of his career in Doha, and the number 736 in the ranking, chosen by his captain despite being fourth in the ranking, have been perceived. Romanian tennis hierarchy.

Bautista won 6-3, 6-1, in one hour and six minutes, thus giving Spain the first point in qualifying for the Davis Cup Finals. The hosts, who played their last series of these characteristics in Lyon, against France, in the 2018 World Group semifinals, endorse their status as clear favorites to be among the 16 teams that will fight for the Davis Cup next November.

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