Australian Open: the moving video of Andy Murray, limping and silent towards the locker room after losing to Bautista Agut

The Spanish Robert Baptist Agutworld number 25, he knocked out the veteran Scotsman in the third round on Saturday Andy Murraygreat protagonist of the Australian Open after two epic victories in five sets.

Having played half the hours in the tournament as his rival, with ten and a half hours in the legsthe Spanish tennis player has imposed his physical freshness to beat the former number one in the world 6-1, 6-7 (7/9), 6-3, 6-4.

After a marathon second-round match that ended at 4 a.m. (local time), Murray struggled to get into the game against Bautista, who went on points 14-1 early.

With two breaks on serve, the 34-year-old Spaniard took the first set in just 28 minutes and put the ball back in the middle with a quick break in the second set.

However, Murray’s slow-burn engine began to fuel and to make the audience dream, clearly in their favorwith a new five-set battle.

With still visible wounds to his arm and leg from round one, the Scotsman put on the survivor suit and gave the break back to Bautista and saved two set points in the tiebreaker to end up taking the set.

But gasoline three-time Grand Slam winner he was exhausted and, albeit stubborn, he ended up giving up his serve in the decisive moment of the third set, giving Bautista the chance to serve with a favorable 5-3.

Stoic, the Spaniard makes no mistake and making Murray run from one side of the track to the other closes the set.

History repeated itself in the final set, in which Bautista got a break in the penultimate game and concluded the Scotsman’s feat in Melbourne.

The latest picture of the two-time Olympic champion showed him limping as he made his way to the locker room, showing signs of the enormous wear and tear he’s endured during the week.

“I surprised myself, really,” Murray said after his Australia debut with a win Berrettini. He added: “I’m usually hard on myself, but I have to give myself credit because the last few years have been very hard.”

Those difficult years in which man was born Glasgow were a consequence of problems in the right hipbegan in 2017, forced him to undergo surgery for the first time in 2018 (the year he dropped out of the top 800) and led him to seriously consider hanging up his racket at the start of the season. next year, when the pain was barely leaving him walking.

Bautista Agut, joy and baton for the public

“Always playing against Andy in a Grand Slam is very tough. He knows the game, he knows very well how to play a Grand Slam match, but I am very happy with how I handled the pressure and the nerves“said the Spaniard, a little annoyed by the audience.

“Today there was a lot of love for Andy. I hope in the next round there will be a little more for me,” he added ironically.

Bautista, the only Spaniard alive in Melbourne, will face the American on Monday tomi paolo for a place in the quarter-finals, which would equal his best result in Australia in 2019.

On that occasion, Castellón also beat an Andy Murray with numerous physical problems in the first round.

Source: AFP