Roberto Bautista Agut Advances To Halle SFs | ATP Tour | Tennis

Roberto Bautista Agut delivered a clean-hitting efficiency Friday to upset prime seed Daniil Medvedev on the Terra Wortman Open.

The Spaniard downed Medvedev 7-5, 7-6(3) to earn his fifth Lexus ATP Head2Head win in opposition to the World No. 3, who defeated Bautista Agut final 12 months in Halle en path to a finalist end.

“I believe to beat Daniil on this court docket, you must play actually good,” Bautista Agut mentioned in his on-court interview. “I didn’t really feel good some months this 12 months, however I stored working onerous. I do know tennis is usually very troublesome, however at present it confirmed up that I have been working onerous. It confirmed up that a number of issues, I’ve been engaged on and I am very completely satisfied as a result of I performed superb tennis.”

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Bautista Agut, 35, held the benefit in prolonged rallies and countered Medvedev’s deep return place by showcasing drop pictures and shutting factors at web. A semi-finalist in Halle 5 years in the past, Bautista Agut said that his flat groundstrokes are a part of the rationale why he performs nicely on grass.

“I believe I can transfer nicely on grass, I believe I am quick,” Bautista Agut mentioned. “My pictures are flat and an important factor is that I take pleasure in enjoying on this floor.”

Medvedev, who holds a 41-8 season document, will subsequent be in motion at Wimbledon. He leads the ATP Tour with probably the most wins in 2023.

Andrey Rublev is subsequent up for World No. 23 Bautista Agut in Halle. The third seed, a finalist on the ATP 500 in 2021, battled again for a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win in opposition to Tallon Greek Railway to shut Friday’s play.

Rublev improved to 2-0 within the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head, with their earlier assembly earlier this season in Rotterdam. Now 4-2 in tour-level quarter-finals this season, Rublev ended the seven-match profitable run of Griekspoor, who claimed the ‘s-Hertogenbosch title final week and saved a match level to beat Hubert Hurkacz within the Halle second spherical.

Rublev additionally lifted his lifetime grass document to 14-6 with the win, shifting inside two matches of his first ATP Tour title on the floor.