Tennis: Bautista Agut beats Safiullin in Barcelona
he Spaniard, who is chasing his 12th ATP Tour crown this week, will meet seventh seed Karen Khachanov in the second round.
he Spaniard, who is chasing his 12th ATP Tour crown this week, will meet seventh seed Karen Khachanov in the second round.
The 36-year-old, who on Sunday became the oldest No. 1 in ATP Rankings history, is chasing a record-extending 41st ATP Masters 1000 crown this week.
With this victory, the Italian tennis player became the highest-ranked Italian tennis player and achieved his career-best ATP singles Ranking of No. 2.
The Australian will next play fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas or Italian Flavio Cobolli.
Home favourite Jannik Sinner capped his brilliant run in the year-end tournament with a fine win over Daniil Medvedev which took the Italian start to the brink of ATP Finals glory on Saturday.
Earlier, Roger Federer had skipped the entire second half of 2016 due to injury before returning to win the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2017.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) said the criteria to determine the eligibility of athletes will remain unchanged.
Meanwhile, the ATP had extended the suspension of its Tours till at least the end of July and thus, the list of cancelled tournaments exceeded 40.
The USTA said that it's "top goal" is to ensure the US Open is held on the scheduled dates and it is mulling restricting the access of fans.
Rafael Nadal, who won his fourth US Open and 19th Grand Slam at last year's event, said he remained convinced the COVID-19 pandemic still casts huge doubts