Davidovich remonta ante Johnson en Indian Wells

The Malaga tennis player achieved an excellent comeback against the American Steve Johnson (6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5) in their duel for the first round of the Masters 1000 Indian Wells. Davidovich will now face South African Lloyd Harris.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina they were coming to this tournament on an extremely negative streak, winning just one of their last six matches. The Spaniard lost in the first rounds of Cincinnati, Toronto, US Open and Sofia, so in Indian Wells he was looking to cut with that bad string of results in these conditions.

For his part, the outlook did not look much better for Steve Johnson. The American has had a season without much good news, missing out early in most of the tournaments he played. The previous week, he had lost in the first round of qualifying in San Diego, and against an Earthman like the Italian Federico Gaio.

The only previous confrontation between the two had been favorable to the Spanish, in one of the Cologne tournaments in 2020. On that occasion, Foki won in two rounds.

Davidovich survives its premiere

The first set would come with changing moments in the domain, where neither of them seemed to have the consistency necessary to take over the scoreboard. Davidovich would have twice a break advantage in favor, but that he could not sustain. In the necessary tiebreak, Johnson prevailed for details, and was ahead in the score.

Everything became more fought and solid for the second set, with the best moments of the match in terms of tennis level. The difference would be marked in the sixth game of the set, in favor of the Spanish, who this time seemed to find some air in his attempt to come back. Alejandro would manage to maintain that advantage, changing the trend of the last set. Davidovich himself would end up closing that sleeve 6-3.

The weather began to get tense in the face of the third set, with the imminent definition. In this case, the development would resemble that of the first, identical in terms of the initial numbers. The Spaniard broke first, but then Johnson recovered it to go 4-4. Davidovich broke again at 5-5, but in this case, he did not hesitate with the serve and sealed an epic victory.. It was victory with a final 7-5