{"id":75878,"date":"2022-05-03T20:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=68046"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:31:40","slug":"bautistas-vengeful-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/bautistas-vengeful-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Bautista\u2019s vengeful return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Roberto Bautista<\/strong> had a score to settle on Tuesday at the start of his tenth Mutua Madrid Open appearance. He was still yet to compete on clay this year due to a wrist problem he picked up after playing in the Masters 1000 in Miami. Coincidentally, he was facing the same opponent who sent him packing in Florida, <strong>Jenson Brooksby<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Caja M\u00e1gica, the man from Castellon was able to leverage his home advantage and stormed to victory <strong>in just 82 minutes (6-0, 6-2)<\/strong>. Bautista is now in the second round, where he will face <strong>Daniel Evans<\/strong> for a place in the last sixteen. The Briton reached the tie by seeing off Argentine Federico Delbonis in two sets (6-3, 6-4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seventeenth seed came flying out of the blocks <strong>to win the first set six games to love in half an hour,<\/strong> he dominated his opponent with some solid serving, winning 91% of points on his first serve and the Californian was never close to breaking him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite his slow start, Brooksby\u2019s head did not drop. The Californian world No. 42 broke his opponent in the opening game of the second set. However, Bautista recovered immediately and<strong> then re-established his dominance with two more breaks in the sixth and eighth games<\/strong> to seal a victory that included twenty winners and just twelve unforced errors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ca\">\u00a1Impecable estreno!<\/p>\n<p>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BautistaAgut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BautistaAgut<\/a> supera a Brooksby por 6-0, 6-2 en primera ronda del <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HjE79mGe4n\">pic.twitter.com\/HjE79mGe4n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MutuaMadridOpen\/status\/1521497418377932801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>A monkey off his back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The result means the Spaniard has now equalled his result from last year\u2019s #MMOPEN and <strong>he is looking to revisit the heights of his 2014 appearance<\/strong>, when he reached the semi-finals. Then, only Rafael Nadal, who went on to be crowned champion, was capable of stopping Bautista from reaching his first final in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bautista did nothing to hide his satisfaction at starting the European clay swing with a solid win to distinguish any lingering doubts over the wrist problem that sidelined him. \u201c<strong>They were difficult weeks, I suffered a lot<\/strong> and luckily the work on court paid off\u201d, he said immediately after his match in the Arantxa S\u00e1nchez-Vicario Stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world No. 19 was delighted to have beaten the last man he played before his injury and admitted to feeling very comfortable in the Caja M\u00e1gica. \u201cThe last match I played, I lost in the third set. It was a really tough match and now<strong> I\u2019m really happy to return to competition in Madrid<\/strong>. I enjoyed myself and it\u2019s always a pleasure to do that\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Bautista had a score to settle on Tuesday at the start of his tenth Mutua Madrid Open appearance. He was still yet to compete on clay this year due to a wrist problem he picked up after playing in the Masters 1000 in Miami. 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