Roberto Bautista Agut received a three-hour, 16-minute epic on Tuesday to succeed in the second spherical on the Sofia Open.
The Spaniard triumphed on the ATP 250 hard-court occasion in 2016 and made a successful begin to his marketing campaign towards Miomir Kecmanovic, clawing previous the Serbian 7-6(9), 6-7(2), 7-6(5).
Bautista Agut did not serve out the match at 5-4 within the second set and at 5-4 within the third set, however finally prevailed within the third-set tie-break, changing his second match level to enhance to 5-0 within the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head collection. Bautista Agut will subsequent play Hungarian Fabian Marozsan.
Marozsan, who upset Carlos Alcaraz in Rome this yr, overcame countryman Zsombor Piros 6-3, 6-1 to succeed in his fifth tour-level second spherical of the yr.
In different motion, Australian Christopher O’Connell defeated #NextGenATP Serbian Hamad Medjedovic 6-7(3), 6-1, 7-6(2) to enhance to 2-0 within the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head collection. O’Connell will subsequent play Sebastian Ofner after the Austrian beat Ukrainian qualifier Vitaliy Sachko 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas beat countryman Roberto Carballes Baena 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 in two hours and 49 minutes to earn his first tour-level hard-court win since Basel in 2022. He’ll subsequent face second seed Adrian Mannarino. Australian Max Purcell additionally superior, downing Rinky Hijikata 6-3, 6-3.
