‘I’m sorry, Alejandro can’t answer the phone’: ATP makes Tabilo joke go viral at Santiago Open

This Thursday, in the round of 16 of the Chile Open, in a duel of national representatives, Alejandro Tabilo beat Tomás Barrios and entered the top eight of the competition taking place in San Carlos de Apoquindo. The player of Canadian origin won in two sets, by partials of 6-2 and 7-5. A meeting between friends who experienced good tennis and an unusual moment,

Indeed, in the second set, more precisely during the eleventh match, while Barrios was about to serve, a cell phone started ringing, which attracted the attention of the entire center court of the tournament. However, the incredibly sounding device came from Tabilo’s bag.

Ale, with a small smile, ran to the other sector of the field, opened his bag and turned off the ringing phone. The action sparked laughter from the audience.

In just a few minutes, the record that occurred in Santiago went viral around the world, so much so that even the official ATP account in X had words for this curious moment. “I’m sorry, Alejandro Tabilo cannot answer the phone at the moment,” they published in an article.

During the post-match press conference, both athletes spoke about this incident. “Yes, an alarm, I still have it at that time, it was a key moment. “It’s bad, I had to turn it off,” Tabilo said.

Meanwhile, Barrios, when asked about it, considers that it was not a distraction, but that it was unusual: “I think it was already 0-30, right? I started this match badly, with a double fault. “It wasn’t a distraction, but what happened to him was unbelievable, hitting him,” he concluded.