Alejandro Tabilo (78th) will not be at Roland Garros. The Chilean tennis player announced, via his Instagram account, his decision to withdraw from the Grand Slam taking place in Paris, France, following a stress fracture in his left arm from which he is still recovering. The doctors who evaluated him recommended that he make this decision and Ale agreed.

“I inform you that after consulting the medical services yesterday, they advised me to continue resting my left arm from the stress fracture for a few more weeks. This means that unfortunately I will not be able to compete at Roland Garros.” announced the native of Canada, who was to face the Croatian Borna Gojo (222nd) for the debut of the second Grand Slam of the year.

“We have seen significant improvement over the past three weeks and are pleased with the progress” , he added, on the progress of his recovery. Lately, Ale had presented many difficulties in training, so that his presence at the Paris Open began to seem more and more distant, which was finally confirmed this Sunday.

It was to be the southpaw’s first time in the competition’s main draw. Appendicitis prevented him from playing the qualifiers in 2020, the same case where in 2021 he was eliminated against Carlos Alcaraz (6th), current world tennis sensation.

In this way the main board The second Chilean racket is still refused, which leaves with the desire to play the phase after the qualifying rounds in the only big one that is played on clay, his favorite surface.

Tabilo’s defeat opens a door for Nicolás Jarry (138th) to enter the tournament, since he was in second place on the waiting list, so now he is waiting for another of the confirmed tennis players to choose to step aside, either due to injury or self-determination.

Christian Garin (36th), for his part, will make his debut this Monday in the first round of the competition, in which he will face the American Tommy Paul (33rd), not before 9:30 a.m. in Chile.