Alejandro Tabilo’s great year doesn’t stop: he reaches the ATP round of 16 in Buenos Aires

The good season of Alejandro Tabilo (54th) continues to add chapters. The Chilean is now celebrating in Buenos Aires, where his ATP stint in the Argentine capital is off to a good start. He beat the German Yannick Hanfmann (56th) 6-1, 6-3, to reach the round of 16 of the event for the first time in his career.

A match without any low point for the national team, which found in 2024 the best version of its career. He started the year at the ATP 250 in Auckland where he was champion right from qualifying and two weeks ago he was a hero in the Davis Cup series winning both matches he played , including the decisive point where Chile qualified for the final in September.

After the exhaustion experienced on the central court of the National Stadium, Jano decided to rest and withdraw from the ATP of Cordoba, giving 100% priority to the event in Buenos Aires where personalities such as Carlos Alcaraz (2nd), Cameron Norrie (20th), Stan Wawrinka stand out (60) and Nicolas Jarry (21st). The latter two will face each other this Wednesday in the round of 16.

Ronda where Tabilo is already installed. Without breaking down, he beat Hanfmann (who will also be at the ATP in Santiago), showing the tennis that places him one step away from returning to the top 50 on the planet. Without going any further, he already has a chance of appearing next Monday in 49th place, even if everything will depend on the results throughout the week.

Aggressive with his right foot and very quick on his legs, he was master of the actions on court 2 of the Argentinian stadium. Perhaps the only complex moment occurred in the sixth game of the second set, where the score was 2-3 and 15-40. He came back and buried the German, who did not win a single game in the match. Hanfmann even lost the match with an incredible point, where he missed a ball that he connected comfortably less than a meter from the net.

Tabilo now awaits Arthur Fils (36th) or Dusan Lajovic (58th), in a match which will take place Thursday at a time to be confirmed. There are already seven victories in the season for the second best tennis player in the country, who is living a dream moment after a 2023 in which he failed to find his best version in a sustained manner.

One of the keys to this change was explained by his coach, Guillermo Gómez, to Deportivo: “Very important mental work was done with him. He found a confidence he didn’t have before. Last year was very difficult for us “We’ve had a very complex year in terms of injuries, mental problems, personal problems, so there are a lot of things that are left behind today and that’s what makes us the happiest,” he said. he admitted from Melbourne while his student was competing. the Australian Open.