The Rome Masters 1000 has its own name: Alejandro Tabilo. The Chilean, who clearly lost to Novak Djokovic in the third round, This Tuesday she sealed her ticket to the quarterfinals after defeating Russian Karen Khachanov 7-6(5), 7-6(10) in the first game of the day.
The challenge this time, against the hammer Khachanov, number 18, is once again huge, with the main goal of achieving the most important victory of his career in what the tournament deserves. Because very few specials can be signed after Djokovic’s.
‘Jano’ has a golden opportunity to show that his passing in the second round was not a coincidence. And wow he got it. He is brilliant again, in key moments and very focused mentally to not let himself in on the complexities. It was another very complete match for the left-handed tennis player who was born in Toronto (Canada), on June 2, 1997, almost 27 years ago.
Winner of a single ATP tournament (Auckland 250), also on clayhis specialty, and with the best result of his career in a round of 16 of the Masters 1,000, which was surpassed after the victory in the capital of Italy, he got the first bet after letting 4 break balls escape, gave his serve In the next game, he broke later to maintain the tie and after a tough tie-break he managed 2 decisive breaks which allowed him to serve with a set ball.
The second challenge is, in the same way, very close. ‘Jano’ made it 4-2 with his servebut a miss from the net, which Khachanov had already lost, and a double fault, leveled the tie at 3. He enjoyed another good chance at 4-4, but the match was set to go to a tie-break, the second of the feast.
There he was up to 5 match points in a constant give and take that seemed endless, but that led to an image to remember Tabilo, lying on the ground celebrating that he had broken the barrier of the second round.
“It’s something incredible, it’s not really in the quarters. There’s a lot of work in my team these days,” he said on the track.
“In the end I was very nervous, my arm was heavy and in the last serves I thought I had to take a risk,” explained Serbian Novak Djokovic’s executioner in the third round.
“Thanks also to all the public and to all the Chileans who support me from home,” he said.
The South American arrived in good shape, as champion of the Aix-en-Provence Challenger, after making the semi-finals in Bucharest, although his journey was short in Monte Carlo and Madrid.
This is his season, which opened with his first ATP title, in Auckland, coming from the qualifying phase, and against Khachanov he again showed his great tennis.
His opponent in the quarterfinals He will appear in the duel between the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro and the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang.
Source: La Verdad
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