Roberto Bautista Agut

Bautista Agut will play his 22nd ATP final against surprise packet Soonwoo Kwon. The Australia threw his biggest punches at Memorial Drive, but the craft and ...

His second break of serve secured the match, Kwon hitting 48 winners in total as he sets his sights on a second ATP title. Bautista Agut will play his 22nd ATP final against surprise packet Soonwoo Kwon in Saturday's Adelaide final after the South Korean blasted young British star Jack Draper off the court earlier in the day. "He's a very good player, serving unreal and very good on this court," Bautista Agut said of Kokkinakis as his son ran on court to congratulate him.

Thanasi Kokkinakis stages a gallant battle, before bowing out in three sets to Roberto Bautista Agut in the Adelaide International 2 semifinals.

But with a 22nd ATP singles final – and first in Australia – in sight for the veteran Spaniard, Bautista Agut responded superbly. A second straight Adelaide International 2 title wasn’t to be for Thanasi Kokkinakis, with Roberto Bautista Agut proving too tough in a three-set semifinal at The Drive. Thanasi Kokkinakis stages a gallant battle, before bowing out in three sets to Roberto Bautista Agut in the Adelaide International 2 semifinals.

Thanasi Kokkinakis has fallen short of the Adelaide International 2 final, losing in the semi-final to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.

His second break of serve secured the match, Kwon hitting 48 winners in total as he sets his sights on a second ATP title. “He’s a very good player, serving unreal and very good on this court,” Bautista Agut said of Kokkinakis as his son ran on court to congratulate him. He broke a distracted Kokkinakis for the first and only time in the match in between, the Australian briefly rattled after an incredible drop shot while back pedalling saved one of those eight chances to break.

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Kokkinakis had three break points in the first game of the third set but couldn’t convert any of them. But Kokkinakis kept chipping away and created the first break point of the match in the fourth game of the second set. After going down a break early in the third set, Kokkinakis created nine break points of his own – five coming in the fifth game and one in the tense last game – but couldn’t win any of them to level up the decider.