Tennis Alejandro Tabilo closes the season as the best tennis player in South America

The 2024 season has become the best in Alejandro Tabilo’s career. Exactly a year ago, the southpaw’s renaissance began after he was surprisingly eliminated from the Pan American Games. At that time, he occupied 125th place in the world rankings and his level was quite irregular. However, He managed to turn that luck around and ended up closing out 2023 with challenger titles from Guayaquil and Brasilia, allowing him to finish the year in 85th place.

This exciting end to the year served as fuel for the start of this year, which was reflected with his first ATP crown of his career in Auckland. This jump quickly allowed him to enter the top 50 and from then on he consolidated his great rise, with the semi-finals of the Masters 1000 in Rome. with a victory included over then world number one Novak Djokovic, and with the ATP 250 title in Mallorca, the first for a Chilean on grass.

These remarkable performances helped him break into the top 20, reaching 19th place. the best of his career. Finally, in this Monday’s update, Jano closed the season in box 22, which consolidates him as number one in Chile and also as number one in South America, something he has achieved in the past. Jaime Fillol, Marcelo Ríos and Nicolas Jarry. The latter achieved it last year, so for the second year in a row, the country contributes with the best tennis player in the region.

The Toronto native was originally scheduled to play the ATP 250 in Belgrade, but he ultimately dropped out and opted to finish his season to start his vacation. Then a pre-season is planned in Chile with its coaches Horacio Matta and Gonzalo Lama and an exhibition against Argentine Tomás Etcheverry on December 20 at the Gran Arena Monticello.

This Monday’s update also showed the promotion of three of Nicolas Jarry’s places, who is now ranked 36th after his participation in the Masters 1000 at Paris-Bercy where he defeated Lorenzo Sonego in the first round and fell to world number two Carlos Alcaraz in the second.

For his part, Tomás Barrios was the protagonist of the great rise of the week among Chilean tennis players after reaching the final of the Guayaquil Challenger, where he lost to the Argentine Federico Gómez. He climbed 18 steps to place himself in 152nd place and is very close to Christian Garin, who remains in 147th place.

Finally, Matías Soto loses three places and finishes 303rd . However, next Monday he will add the points obtained at the M25 in Curitiba last week, so will be located near 295º . In doubles, Copapino is 112 and Tabilo 113, separated by a single point.