Sports writing, June 26 (EFE).- The Spanish Roberto Carballés Baena, eighth seed, beat the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka 6-4, 1-6 and 6-3 in two hours and nine minutes and reached the round of 16 final of the tournament on grass in Majorca, from which his compatriot Bernabé Zapata was eliminated in the first place.
With this victory, Carballés (n.53 ATP) matches his particular duel with Ivashka (n.102), who had previously beaten him in Monte Carlo in 2018.
Carballés’ rival in the round of 16 is Frenchman Corentin Moutet, who this Sunday beat Australian Christopher O’Connell 7-5, 6-4.
Bernabé Zapata did not suffer the same fate, eliminated in the first place by the South African Lloyd Haris, coming from the previous phase and who won 6-2 and 7-6 (2).
In other matches of the day, victories of the Russians Pavel Kotov over the Australian Li Tu, by 7-6 (4) and 6-3, and of the Russian Roman Safiullin against the Jordanian Abedallah Shelbayth, by 6-1 and 6-4 .