Bautista-Agut – Millman / Australian Open – The first day of the Australian Open competition did not bring any big surprise, so most of the favorites justified their status. For the first analysis of the second round, we chose a match between Spaniard R. Bautista-Agut and home tennis player J. Millman.

R. Bautista-Agut

Bautista-Agut came to the Australian Open as the 24th player in the world, and his best career was at the end of 2016 when he reached the 13th position on the ATP rankings. It’s important to note that Bautista-Agut has already won the title this season, in the Doha tournament, where he was better than T. Berdych in the final match. Accordingly, the Spaniard has entered this season well and currently has a six-time win without losing.Not only is the title won in Doha, it is much more important that on the way to this trophy Bautista-Agut has mastered renowned players, such as T. Berdych, and before N. Đoković and S. Wawrinka were overtaken. To qualify for this second round of the Australian Open, Bautista-Agut played an emotional match against A. Murray. The crowd was on the side of the British tennis player who announced the possible ending of his career these days, so it was not easy for Spaniard to play this match, which he won only after five games.

J. Millman

Millman reached his best career at the end of last season when he was the 33rd player in the world. Until the start of the Australian Open, this rating is not much worse, so the Australac is currently in the 37th position of the ATP rankings. Millman has not won any ATP title in his 12 years career, and he was close to that goal last year at a tournament in Budapest, where he played a finale that he lost to M. Cecchinato.This season, Millman has already played two tournaments in Brisbane, where he lost the second-round match from Dimitrov and Sydney, where he played the quarter-finals in which he was better than Simon Simon. The best result when it comes to the Australian Open, Millman was in 2016 when he reached the third round in which he lost to compatriot B. Tomic. In the first round of this season Australian Open Millman managed to beat F. Delbonis 3: 1.

Tennis Prediction of the Day Bautista-Agut vs Millman

All three matches so far played between these two tennis players came to Spaniard. The last of those matches came from Roland Garros in 2017, and Bautista-Agut won a convincing 3-1 victory. The Spaniard is also a big favorite this time, but he has a hard match against A. Murray. Now he plays against domestic tennis players who will have great support from the stands and we think that Bautista-Agut will not be so easy until the third round. We expect Millman to provide good resistance, which is why we are tipping over more than three sets.

Prediction Today: over 3.5 sets

Odds: 1.66