The national tennis player fully recovered from the edema he suffered from in his left humerus and managed to win by appealing to his hierarchy over the Japanese Shintaro Mochizuki.
After almost two months of inactivity, Alejandro Tabilo (72nd ATP) returned to compete in an ATP 250. He did so in Winston-Salem, where the draw paired him with the lucky loser Japanese Shintaro Mochizuki (368º) , one of the promises of Asian tennis and former world number one among juniors. However, the match was not the most lucid, in particular because of the poor filming of the Chilean and the inaccuracies of the Japanese. Beyond that, the left-hander managed to get out of a bad start to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Besides the result, the most positive of the meeting was to appreciate the total recovery of the native of Toronto, after a grade 3 edema in the left humerus which excluded him from Roland Garros and that made him play decimated the grass tour, which is why he decided to lay off throughout July and much of August to fully recover and face the final part of the season.
As for the game, Tabilo was quite erratic with his serve, especially in the first set, in which he had too many problems to keep it. In fact, the first round was a festival of breaks on both sides, Mochizuki being the most effective at keeping him, which allowed him to keep the partial without doing too much.
As the match progressed, Tabilo managed to find his game a little more, which allowed him to quickly impose his category. Two consecutive breaks, in the fourth and sixth games, made it 5-1. However, he couldn’t close it immediately with his serve and the Japanese were reduced. But his rival wasn’t excited as the country’s number one smashed him again and sealed the sleeve after a comfortable smash that the Asian left on the net.
The clean and jerk of the second set allowed Guillermo Gómez’s pupil to start the last chapter of the match in style. It’s gone 2-0, with a break in second Game but again he failed to ratify the difference with his serve and again it was evenly matched.
The future of the third round remained fairly even until the Chilean put the hierarchy forward in the tenth game. There, Mochizuki had to keep serve to stay alive in the match, but Tabilo pressed him in an excellent way, getting the long-awaited break and the bye for the second round after two hours and 10 minutes. His next rival will be the Italian Lorenzo Sonego (63rd), released in the first phase.
Jarry has a rival at the US Open
This Tuesday, at 5:00 p.m., Nicolás Jarry (120th ATP) will play his first match in the US Open qualifiers. His rival will be the Argentinian Facundo Díaz Acosta (228th). The two have faced each other twice, with two wins for the Chilean in three sets. The most recent, at the Challenger in Luedenscheid, Germany.
If he wins, the national tennis player will face the winner of the trans-Andean duel Juan Bautista Torres (237th) and American Bjorn Fratangelo (216th).
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