Tennis Alejandro Tabilo incredibly misses victory against Tommy Paul at the Shanghai Masters

Alejandro Tabilo lost his chance to win the Shanghai Masters this Sunday . The Chilean fell (2) 6-7, 7-6 (6) and 6-4 against the American Tommy Paul (13th), who secured his way to the round of 16 of the competition.

The first set of the match saw both athletes perform quite regularly, which meant that the first break opportunity did not arrive until the seventh game. The American managed to put pressure on the national first racket, but the Chilean defended himself well and ended up avoiding him.

In this way, the first round had to be defined in the tie-break. In this case, Tabilo took advantage of two service losses from his rival to win the set 7-6(2).

In the second case, the story started quite well for the national representative, but he could not achieve victory here.

The third games made the first difference. Paul made a series of errors which allowed the Chilean to take the advantage and reach the first break of the match. Furthermore, in the fifth the advantage increased for Tabilo who added a new break in his favor and, with the corresponding confirmation, he led 5-1. .

So the eighth games This marked a break in the match. With the South American tennis player serving, he had five points to advance to the round of 16. Paul fought with everything to prevent this from happening and in the end the fatigue ended up taking its toll on the Chilean.

The American obtained a break point which he took advantage of to stop the Canadian’s enthusiasm, leaving the set at 5-3.

But the North American’s attack did not stop there, since in the tenth game he equalized the score at 5-5 and tried to do more. After confirmation, he had three chances to close the set, but Tabilo forced him to go to the tie-break. There, the Chilean managed to save three set points before losing 7-6(6) .

Already during the final match, the outlook was negative for the national team. Fatigue, added to the emotional momentum of his rival, allowed Paul to take the advantage from the start and take away the entry serve.

Everything became even more complicated when in fifth grade games The American takes another break, marking the difference that allowed him to win the third set 6-2 and qualify for the round of 16 .

The Chilean will therefore have to concentrate on the Shanghai Masters doubles competition, in which he will be accompanied by the Italian Luciano Darderi.

On Saturday, they managed to beat the Greek duo Petros and Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5, 4-6 and 11-9, thus advancing to the round of 16.

His next rival will come from the cross between the Czech Adam Pavlasek and the Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer against the duo composed of the Finnish Harri Heliovaara and the British Henry Patten.