Jódar passes the round well and Bucsa falls in the Washington round of 32

The Spanish tennis player Rafael Jódar won this Tuesday by 7-6(5) and 6-3 against the Frenchman Arthur Fils and has reached the round of 16 in the ATP 500 tournament in Washington DC (United States), while there the also Spanish Cristina Bucsa has lost 5-7, 7-6(4) and 6-0 against the Uzbek Polina Kudermetova in the round of 32 of the WTA 500 table.

In this Mubadala DC Open, Jódar gave up his serve in the long opening game of the match, but immediately counterbreaked. Then, except for a fleeting 30-40 in the seventh game while he was serving, the rest were barely given any options and that led the first set to sudden death; and there the Madrid native showed strength to win it by a tight 7-5.

Fils began to suffer and saved a break point as soon as the second set began, where in the third game he did concede a hard break. To make matters worse, after the fifth game he requested medical attention for discomfort in the upper part of his left thigh, almost in the hip, and from then on he was noticed to be somewhat limping until he lost the match after almost two hours.

Meanwhile, in the women’s competition, Bucsa overcame an adverse scenario in the first set of her duel against Kudermetova and went 1-3 up during the second set. However, the Cantabrian paid for her two-month inactivity due to a wrist injury; Her opponent overcame and in the tie-break Kudermetova turned the score around to win 7-4.

Under that dynamic where the tables had completely changed, the third set had no history and the Uzbek broke all of Bucsa’s services, maintaining her own service turns without apparent problems and achieving a ‘rosco’ that served to seal the victory and advance to the round.