The national tennis player is having a dream season and arrives at the traditional British competition with the desire to leave behind his first eliminations at the Australian Open and Roland Garros. All this in a month of changes for the Chilean, who announced his new coach two weeks ago.
Alejandro Tabilo (19th) continues to stretch out his great moment on the world tennis circuit. This Saturday, Jano became the first Chilean to win a title on grass. He does so just before Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam of the season. As is the trend this year, the national team is taking big steps in the run-up to a major competition. This happened in Auckland, a few days before the Australian Open, and in May he managed to be a semi-finalist at the Masters 1000 in Rome ahead of Roland Garros. He now wins the Mallorca title 48 hours before the British competition.
Of course, his participation in the Grand Slam tournaments was not positive. In Oceania and France, he said goodbye in the first round. Now, yes, there are differences. The main one is that the one who was born in Canada is now under the direction of Horacio Matta. Christian Garin’s former coach arrived in Tabilo’s team with the mission of keeping him among the top 20 on the planet. “I’m trying to understand everything that’s happening this season. Above all, reaching the top 20 is something incredible for me. Every day is like a dream come true. “A lot of new things are happening to me.” he said after winning the trophy this Saturday.
“It’s something impressive for our country, it’s very important. The main goal is to motivate new generations to continue playing and show them that it is possible to get there. “I hope we can have a lot of players on the circuit,” he added.
Tabilo’s situation does not surprise Patricio Cornejo. The historic athlete has a theory about the Chilean’s performance in the Grand Slam. “Winning a tournament is a very exhausting few weeks. He’s doing very well overall. He’s very confident. He has grown a lot, he has beaten very good players and that gives him a certain peace of mind. Logically, he will have little time to rest and enjoy everything he has done recently,” he suggests, in dialogue with Sporty .

However, for the native of Llolleo, Wimbledon is the ideal setting for the tennis player to confirm his great moment. “It’s coming well, without a doubt. He’s very confident, he’s playing at a good level. I think he will have a good role. The serve and all his shots are in very good condition. He has two days of rest and does not need to train so much to start playing his first match. You’ve already had a successful week. It won’t be difficult for him to get used to the London courts.” analyze.
A vision that shares Horacio de la Peña which also explains why Tabilo was unable to advance in Paris.My perception is that what happened at Roland Garros was linked to his first contact with the reality that he was someone important and that he had to play well and win well. I had to play nicely, people were expecting a lot. At the beginning of the match, playing very well, he won the first set and served three times in the second. If I had won that second set, I think I would have reached the third or fourth round. These are things you have to get used to. “It’s not so easy to go from 136th place, where the year started, to 19th place. It’s very difficult,” he says.
“What he does is really incredible. In every shot he creates something. It’s impressive. I told them at the beginning of the year that he was going to fight for the Chilean number one with Jarry, when it seemed that it was still far away. It was very far away. Look how fast it happened. But just like Tabilo was going to fight Jarry in hand-to-hand combat, I know Jarry is going to fight Tabilo in hand-to-hand combat. “It’s very good for Chilean tennis,” he adds.
The chip He is also surprised by the performances displayed on grass, a surface on which the South Americans have not historically been good. “He really started to get back to a spectacular level of tennis, attacking much better, being much more confident in the important moments. He started to find a system and it works very well for him. Even on grass, being now a grass champion. Reaching the finals on three surfaces is very difficult. That a Chilean won a title on grass just before Wimbledon is exciting. They say that we South Americans have no possibility of playing on grass and, despite that, he won a tournament from start to finish,” he said.
Change in the team
Two weeks ago, Alejandro Tabilo announced the arrival of Horacio Matta at his staff . They started their journey together at Queen’s, where they made it to the second round. Now, in just a few days, they have already won a title. The US-based coach has a different profile to Guillermo Gómez, with whom Jano broke off a working relationship of nearly a decade. Garin’s former coach worked at the time in the teams that worked with Nicolás Massú and Fernando González.

Its history, of course, has its controversial moments. With Gago for example had a tense time in the run-up to Wimbledon in 2018. “He told me he wasn’t going to play quality from Wimbledon because he had a sore arm and I don’t know what. I spent 15 minutes shouting at him on the phone, insulting him, forcing him to go to London. I told him: you are going to London and there is no other alternative. I must have insulted him, it was not intentional and he filed away. Afterwards, he told me that I yelled at him a lot and that he didn’t want to train with me anymore,” he revealed to this medium at the end of his work with Arican.
“That’s the way it should be.” “If you want an effect on an athlete, there has to be someone who manages those angles with the player.” he explained to defend his methods.
Even though the results are already coming in, For Patricio Cornejo, the change was surprising but understand that this is something that happens in the circuit. “Gómez did a good job and that must be recognized. There are a lot of top players who have had three, four or five coaches. It’s not something that hasn’t happened, let’s say. But we must not forget the first steps, which are important,” he emphasizes.
Beyond the names in the team, for Pulga de la Peña, Tabilo’s good moment is due to his merits. “The change of coach is something that you have to ask him about. What I see is a player who has a lot of tools. He has a great serve, a great forehand, a backhand, a return, a volley, a drop shot, he’s left-handed. “He’s doing better physically,” he said.
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