Ilya Ivashka reaches 1/16 tennis tournament in Barcelona

Ilya Ivashka started with a victory at the ground tennis tournament in Barcelona. The 44th-ranked player defeated Pedro Martinez in two sets. The fight lasted 2 hours and 13 minutes and ended in two sets. But the next opponent of the Belarusian is the first seed and the fifth racket of the world, Stefanos Tsitsipas. The two tennis players had only once played against each other last year in Rotterdam, and that time the Greek won. However, it was a hard-court match.