R. Bautista-Agut – J. Vesely / ATP Auckland – In just a few days this year’s Grand Slam, Australian Open begins. Many tennis players are preparing for the two current category 250 tournaments held in Auckland and Sydney. In both tournaments the final phase of the quarterfinal will be played and this time we analyze the match between R. Bautista-Agut and J. Vesely. Last year’s winner of this tournament in Auckland was J. Sock, who defeated J. Sousa in the final. Sock was the first player in the tournament this season, and the title defense battle ended in the second round with the defeat of P. Gojowczyk.

R. Bautista-Agut
Bautista-Agut is the fifth-placed tennis player in the tournament in Auckland and has defeated S. Johnson after three sets to qualify for the quarter-finals. Johnson won the first set without any problems, but in the next two sets, R. Bautista-Agut returned the favor, so he ended up in the quarter-finals. For Bautista-Agut, the current season did not start in the best possible way, since he already participated in the tournament in Pune and was already eliminated in the second round by G. Simon.
The Spaniard has arrived in Auckland as the 21st tennis player in the world and his best ranking in 2016, when he has occupied the solid 13th position on the ATP World Ranking. In the past 13 years of his professional career, Bautista-Agut has won six ATP titles, two of them last season at the Chennai and Winston-Salem tournaments. As for last year’s results, only the quarter finals of the Montreal Masters tournament, in which Bautista-Agut was defeated by R. Federer, are worth mentioning.

J. Vesely
J. Vesely has been expecting much more recently, as it is a relatively young tennis player from the Czech Republic who has a very strong serve. However, Vesely could not justify these expectations as he has only won one ATP title at the tournament in Auckland when he defeated A. Mannarino in the 2015 final.