- Roberto Bautista Agut won 74.4 percent of his first-serve points in a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Daniil Medvedev.
- The fifth-seeded Spaniard will next face Switzerland’s Antoine Bellier in the semifinals.
- Maxime Cressy recorded 10 aces while beating Cameron Norrie at the Rothesay International.
Fifth-cultivated Roberto Bautista Agut won 74.4 percent of his first-serve focuses while moving to a 6-3, 6-2 triumph over World No. 1 Daniil Medvedev on Thursday to arrive at the elimination rounds of the Mallorca Championship in Spain.
The Spaniard won 12 straight focuses from the get-go in the second set while effectively beating the top-cultivated Medvedev, who won’t play at impending Wimbledon due to the boycott of Russian players because of the conflict in Ukraine. Medvedev won only 56% of his first-serve focuses.
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Bautista Agut will next confront Switzerland’s Antoine Bellier, who was a 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-2 victor over Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands.
Second-cultivated Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece arrived at the semis with the 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3 victory over Marcus Giron. Tsitsipas will confront France’s Benjamin Bonzi, who was a 6-3, 6-4 victor over Germany’s Daniel Altmaier.
Rothesay International:
Maxime Cressy recorded 10 pros while posting a 7-5, 7-5 bombshell of top-cultivated Cameron Norrie of Great Britain to arrive at the elimination rounds at Eastbourne, England.
Cressy changed over 79.5 percent of his first-serve focuses in serious areas of strength for the. He will next confront 6th cultivated Australian Alex de Minaur after the reigning champ knocked off Tommy Paul 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
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Third-cultivated Taylor Fritz will confront Jack Draper in the other elimination round. Fritz crushed Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik 6-3, 6-2, while Draper beat individual Brit Ryan Peniston 6-3, 6-3.
