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Martínez finds a very sought after smile in Barcelona

The Valencian achieves his first victory in the city

April 14, 2025

Pedro Martínez represents the illusion in Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell 2025, where he lands at one of the best moments of his career. At 27, the Valencian competes about the clay of the city converted into one of the most recognizable figures of Spanish tennis. The irruption signed on Monday, achieving the first victory of his life in the Count Trophy of Godó, served to inaugurate the main picture unbeatable.

No. 49 of the PIF ATP Rankings starred in a game full of pundonor on the Rafa Nadal track, defeating 7-5, 5-7, 6-4 to the American Brandon Nakashima in three hours and 18 minutes of effort. With the breath of his closest ones from the stands, the Levantino completed one of his most worked wins of the season, a symptom of perseverance that he wishes to show this week at the Catalan ATP 500.

Above all, Martínez fulfilled a pending account in the city. The Valencian, a usual face in the final paintings of Barcelona (2018, 2022, 2023), had never managed to knock down the barrier of the victories in the Catalan clay and take a mass bath before their compatriots. With an immense fighting spirit, this Monday changed the script until one of the triumphs with the greatest meaning of 2025.

Martínez has landed in Barcelona with the intention of continuing to raise his game about clay. After starting the European tour on the surface adding victories in Bucharest and Montecarlo, the Valencian hopes to find the tennis that led him to sign the semifinals of Buenos Aires in February, his brightest result of the course so far.

In a high part of the picture full of big names, Martínez will need his best level to continue advancing in Barcelona. The Valencian will play the round of 16 before the winner of the clash facing the former finalist Pablo Carreño Busta, invited by the organization of the tournament, with the seventh head of the Arthur Fils series, current ATP 500 champion on clay in Hamburg.

Spanish tennis could not celebrate a plenary of victories on the inaugural day. The British Jacob Fearnley added his first ATP Tour triumphant on beaten land by defeating the local Roberto Carballés Baena after an hour and 45 minutes of play. The fifth head of the Alex de Miñaur or the Argentine Tomás Martín Etcheverry will be his rival in the round of 16.

This Monday also achieved the ticket to the round of 16, the American Sebastian Korda, demanded until he overcome 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to the Italian Matteo Arnaldi. The World Cup will face the winner of the crossing that measures the third Greek favorite Stefanos Tsitsipas, a finalist in the last two editions of the tournament, with the great American rack Reilly Opelka, scored with protected ranking this week in Barcelona.

Did you know what …?
Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell is one of the most traditional appointments of the European bolted land tour. Present at the ATP Tour calendar since the beginning of the era open in the 1969 season, on their tracks illustrious Grand Slam champions such as Björn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Thomas Muster, Rafael Nadal or Carlos Alcaraz, among others, have been crowned.