The Chilean beat Germany’s Maximilian Marterer 6-4, 6-3 to earn his first win of the season in an ATP Tour main draw.
The national entourage remains unstoppable in California. To Christian Garin’s victory over Daniel Galán, now the one made by Alejandro Tabilo against Maximilian Marterer in the first round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 is added. Result that allows the left-hander to reproduce his best performance in an event of this category.
And it is that his other feat in a Masters 1000, had been the second round he obtained in this same tournament in 2021 . An event that, following the pandemic, took place in the second part of the calendar and took the Chilean from the playoffs to the 64-player phase.
Now with a path that also started in the qualitythe left-hander reproduces this performance and realizes it after a match where he showed a great level and knew how to neutralize a player who suffered from anxiety at many key moments of the match.
Tabilo, on the other hand, was able to carry those emotions better and fix the game, despite the fact that he again resorted excessively to the dropshot, when trying to change the long strokes. This variant is used repeatedly and without much result by the national tennis player, who does not seem interested in ending it.
In any case, he managed to break the first game and recover a penalty against him after the sixth game, still managing to stay ahead on the scoreboard. In fact, after winning the first set 6-4, the Torontonian maintained that superiority in the second quarter, adding another break to his tally.
An opportunity not to be missed. He closed the game with a score of 6-3 in his favour, in a game that ended at match point in favor of Tabilo due to a problem with the field mesh.
Thus, the passage to the second round of the first Masters 1000 of the season was assured. He will face the local Maxime Cressy there . The Paris-born but American national, the 25-year-old was seeded in the tournament and passed the first round goodbye, so he will face a Chilean with no experience on the pitch this week. His last tournament was the ATP 500 in Dubai, where he fell on his debut against Felix Auger Alliasime.
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