Tomas
Berdych has suffered a shock second round loss to 25 year old Roberto
Bautista-Agut. The world number 53 was producing
amazing Nadal like shots throughout his roller coaster 46 62 64
victory against the forth seed.
In
the first set Bautista-Agut took an early advantage by breaking a
tentative Berdych in the first game. Agut looked in control of the
match until Berdych raced to a 0-40 lead against Agut when he was 4-3
up on serve. Despite being able to come back to deuce, it still
wasn't enough to contain Berdych as he broke to level it up at 4-4.
From there on Berdych took a strong foothold in the set by holding
his serve followed by breaking Agut for the second consecutive time
to take it 64. Berdych's winner-unforced errors ratio was 12-14
compared to Bautista-Agut's 9-22.
In
the next set the tides abruptly turned. Berdych was unable to carry
his first set momentum into the second set due to the mighty
resistance demonstrated by Bautista-Agut. Displaying some fantastic
constructed points Agut stormed on to take full command of the second
set which clearly rattled Berdych. The consistent Spaniard took it
comfortably 6-2 by producing 81% first serves in
(winning 77%). On the other hand Berdych's first serve was a dismal
35% as well as 17 unforced errors.
Things
kept going Agut's way as he draw first blood in the final set by
breaking Berdych's serve imediately yet again in the first game. Berdych did
manage to gradually come back to level the set again at 4-4 but this
was still not enough to contain Agut. The Spaniard broke again to
serve it out and take the match on his first match point. This was a
disappointing loss for a slightly below par Berdych but nothing
should be taken away from Agut's brilliant performance and appraoch
to the match. This is now Agut's second top ten win in 2014 after his
win over Juan Martin Del Potro at the Australian Open.
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