Having overcome the logical concern of the match against Serbia, Spain faces this second series of the group stage with greater guarantees.

The presence of

Carlos Alcaraz

modifies any scenario and

Roberto Bautista

is reliable as the first player as well as wearing the two on his number.

Canada, rival of the team captained by

Sergi Bruguera

in the 2019 final, which culminated in the sixth Salad Bowl for the hosts in the Caja Mágica, suffered last Tuesday in the debut against South Korea.

Denis Shapovalov

is not

there and

Felix Auger-Aliassime

is weighed down by his shirt when he has to defend his country.

Vasek Pospisil

is 32 years old and has been playing Davis for 14 years.

With different luck.

He is good for both singles and doubles, but with the loss to Bautista there are 14 games lost compared to 13 wins.

The player from Castellón won 3-6 and 6-3 and 6-3, in two hours and 11 minutes of a tough match, in which the player from Vernon needed attention in the left pyramidal with 1-1 in the third set.

The influence of Alcaraz

Alcaraz watched the initial five games carefully and went to warm up when nothing important had happened yet, with Pospisil ahead 3-2.

Deprived of his influence, Bautista then lost serve at love.

He looked contemplative.

And the Canadian knows how to do things if they let him, he has a good hand and doesn't hit two equal balls.

It was to leave the US Open champion and chain Pospisil seven consecutive points.

5-2 for Canada, which later took the set.

Bautista took a long time to find the point of his opponent's tennis, but when he did, more lively in his legs and sharp in his shots, his mistakes followed one another, combative nonetheless until the end.

The precedent of Pospisil's only victory in the four matches between the two, in the second round of the US Open in 2020, after all five sets, explained how tight the fight was.

The Canadian threatened first in the third set, but it was Bautista who escaped, without being hunted down.

It is a rock, a pillar in this Spain that travels safely in La Fonteta.

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