Juan Pablo Varillas and Roberto Bautista-Agut meet in the second round of the 2022 tennis Swiss Open.
Juan Pablo Varillas is coming off a straight set win over Lorenzo Sonego that took 21 games to decide. In the victory, Pablo Varillas won 80 percent of his first serve points and 45 percent of his second serve points. Pablo Varillas won 66 percent of his total service points and converted on 3 of his 4 break points. Pablo Varillas got 60 percent of his first serves in play and hit 6 aces. Pablo Varillas has now won 3 straight matches when you include qualifying, which is huge considering he entered this tournament on a 5-match losing streak. Pablo Varillas now looks to win 2 straight matches on the main tour for the first time since Santiago last year. Pablo Varillas has split his last 8 matches on clay court.
Roberto Bautista-Agut is coming off a first match loss in Bastad where he lost to Dominic Thiem in 3 sets. In the losing effort, Bautista-Agut was broken twice and won 38 percent of his return points. Bautista-Agut is still looking for his first win since the first round of Wimbledon after later withdrawing from the tournament due to a positive COVID test. Bautista-Agut will have to be sharper with his second serve this time around if he’s going to make a deep run in this tournament. Bautista-Agut has lost his opening match 3 times since last year’s US Open. Bautista-Agut has lost 5 of his last 6 matches on clay court.
There’s no match history between these 2 players.
Bautista-Agut hasn’t had much recent success on clay court, and that’s a bit of a concern here. However, he’s going up against a player in Pablo Varillas who hasn’t won back-to-back matches on the main tour in about a year and a half. Pablo Varillas has done most of his winning the last 2 years in challenger play. I have to see it to believe it from the 26-year-old Peruvian.
Give me Bautista-Agut in straight sets.