Alejandro Tabilo makes his debut with a long victory in Roland Garros qualifying

Alejandro Tabilo (152nd) made his Roland Garros qualifying debut with a win over Italian Luca Nardi (151st) in a match that started very favorably for the Chilean, but then got complicated in the second set. However, he managed to pull it off and won 6-2, 6-7(3), 7-5.

The national tennis player is on the rise, since in recent weeks he was a finalist in the Florianópolis Challenger (he lost against Tomás Barrios) then he was champion in Francavilla al Mare performances that allowed him to climb the world rankings and gave him a good boost to join Paris.

Facing Nardi, the Chilean left-hander got off to a very good start, with a break in the fourth game of the first set, which allowed him to establish differences. SO, in the seventh, he again broke his rival’s serve, ruling the set for good.

However, the following set was totally different from the previous one, as the Italian adjusted his game and started to get complicated with the return to the pupil of Guillermo Gómez. That’s how the European’s first break came in the third game.

With the score against Tabilo tried to refocus, with several ups and downs. In fact, he managed to recover the break in sixth Games, but in the next, he again dropped his service. Of course, the peninsular was not at its best either and He also couldn’t hold on to his serve, the product of a few unforced errors and also successes from the Toronto native.

The end of the match was not without emotion, since the national tennis player had to save a break point before going up 6-5 and transferring all the pressure on his rival. However, everything ended up being defined in the decisive game where Tabilo was very erratic and ended up losing it 7-3.

This feeling of irregularity continued at the start of the third set. While Nardi seemed more comfortable playing from the baseline, the criollo player continued to show doubts. He even saved a break point in the second game.

Everything remained even until the eleventh game, where the left-hander achieved the desired goal to break and closed with his service the passage to the next round, where will face the Croatian Borna Gojo (103rd), who agreed with the Bosnian Damir Dzumhur (174th), by 6-0, 4-6 and 6-4. While Tomás Barrios (145th) will make his debut this Tuesday, around 9:00 a.m. in Chile, against the Slovak Jozef Kovalik (143rd).