No. 20 seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain will take on Quentin Halys of France in the second round of the 2023 ATP Madrid Masters on Friday, April 28. Get the predictions and odds of this Roberto Bautista Agut v Quentin Halys match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Roberto Bautista Agut v Quentin Halys Head to Head
Halys won their only meeting at the Estoril Open earlier this year.
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Bautsita Agut Struggling In 2023
Roberto Bautista Agut had reached the semifinals on his Madrid debut in 2014. Since the the Spaniard has struggled to even reach the last 16. On Thursday he will begin his ninth campaign at the Masters 1000 tournament.
Seeded no. 20, Bautista Agut had a first round bye. He had a very good start to the season but has gone off the boil ever since the tour moved out of Australia.
The world no. 25 will be aiming to return to form in Madrid but has a tough opener against a player who knocked him out in his first match in Estoril earlier this month. Can he get his revenge over Halys? The 35-year-old has lots of experience behind him and has won 11 titles from 22 ATP finals, three of those finals were on clay and he succeeded in claiming two of those titles.
Bautista Agut is however 2-3 on clay this year and he is 10-11 overall in 2023. His best this season was a runner-up finish in Adelaide-2 and he also made it to the fourth round of the Australian Open.
He will be concerned about his current form, but given his class, one good game can turn things around once again.
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Halys Rallies Past Popyrin
World no. 66 Quentin Halys bounced back after losing the first set to beat Alexei Popyrin in three sets and move into the second round of his first Madrid Masters tournament.
The 26-year-old Frenchman was broken in the very first game of the match and the Aussie protected the advantage to seal the first set. Halys wasn’t broken again in the match though, while he won the next two sets in identical manner by breaking the world no. 75 in the last game (10th game) of each set.
Halys served 13 aces and 35 winners in the match. He also saved 5 of 6 break points and converted half of the four that he held to complete a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory in just under two hours.
The win improved Halys to 12-11 on the tour and 17-14 across levels this year. He was a semifinalist in Estoril and a quarterfinalist in Auckland and Montpellier.
Having got off to a good start, it will be interesting to see if he can build on it. Can he make it 2-0 against Bautista Agut?
Bautista Agut v Halys Prediction and Tip
Bautista Agut may have lost in their first meeting earlier this month, but the vastly experienced Spaniard remains the favourite in this contest.
Tips:
- Low Risk Tip: Bautista Agut to win: 3/4 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
- Moderate Risk Tip: Over 23.5 games in the match: 5/6 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
- High Risk Tip: Bautista Agut to win in three sets: 3/1 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
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