Roberto Bautista Agut methodically broke down the game of Team Japan’s Go Soeda on Wednesday to put Team Spain on course for a place in the Final Eight of the ATP Cup as Group B winners.
The World No. 9 extended his winning start to the 2020 ATP Tour season with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Soeda, who’d won his two previous singles matches, in 79 minutes at the RAC Arena in Perth.
Should World No. 1 Rafael Nadal beat Yoshihito Nishioka in the second singles match, Spain will travel from Perth to Sydney for the Final Eight where the team will play on Friday night.
Soeda’s opportunity for a win was fleeting when leading Bautista Agut 2-1, with the Spaniard serving at 0/30, courtesy of a fine backhand volley winner at close quarters. But from that moment on, Bautista Agut won 21 of the next 28 points to clinch the 32-minute opener and decisively broke serve in a 12-point fifth game of the second set.
Japan has beaten Georgia and Uruguay in its two previous Group B ties.
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