The Spanish tennis player Pablo Carreño accepted this Wednesday in the third round of the US Openlast “Grand Slam” of the season, beating Kazakh Alexander Bublik (4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(5) with Alexander Davidovich, who kicked off the epic in five sets, while Roberto Carballés beat fellow Spaniard Jaume Munar, in the debut for the two who couldn’t finish the day before.

Carreño, recent Masters 1000 champion from Canada, had to overcome his second engagement in New York to now meet a bone like the Australian Alex de Minaur. The Spaniard arrived with a good shoot from his debut against Dominic Thiem, in addition to his recent scratches and in the past also at Flushing Meadows

Semi-finalist in New York in 2017 and 2020, the Spaniard suffered with the service of Bublik, 28 aces, the Kazakh connected, but little by little he took the measure of his rival. After giving up the first set, Carreño equalized despite resistance from a Bublik who continued to save break points and even set points.

The Spaniards also gave good performance with his serve and in the third quarter he did not have to face any “break” balls, completing the set with an eighth game tiebreaker. With the fourth came hit or miss and the two raised the level, not conceding until Carreño saved six set points to force sudden death where a hard-fought but satisfying pass in the third round was left.

In addition, Davidovich ended a good day for Spanish tennis with his great match against the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (7-6(3), 5-7, 3-6, 6-0, 7-6(3)). The Malaga man, who reached the round of 16 in 2020, lost control of the match in a second set he had with a ‘break’. Fucsovics signed his comeback in the third quarter.

This year’s finalist in Monte Carlo reacted with a formidable 6-0 in the fourth set and, after a tight fifth with a good break option for the Spaniard in game four, Davidovich won the match in the super tie-break. In the third round, the Andalusian will face the Colombian Daniel Galán, who beat the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas then the Australian Jordan Thompson.

Whereas, Carballés and Munar left their game on Tuesday with the victory very close to the native of Tenerife (6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 4-1). The Spaniard had little luck in the recovery on Wednesday and even ended up giving the match to rest (6-2), for a Carballés who will face in the second round the Canadian Denis Shapovalov, his executioner a year ago. year with the Yankees. Open.