Djokovic fell off a cliff in Rome against the great Tabilo
About 24 hours after ten-time tournament winner Rafa Nadal lost to Hubert Hurkaczthis Sunday the Masters 1000 tournament in Rome also lost Novak Djokovic, world number one and six-time champion. The Serbian, oddly washed out, fell in the Central to the sensational Alejandro Tabilo, who knew how to take his chance. The 26-year-old Chilean, ranked 32nd, scored the biggest win of his career in a landslide: 6-2 to 6-3 in 67 minutes.after breaking the serve of one of the best tennis players in history four times.
“It’s incredible. I walked out onto the set, just looking around, trying to take it all in. ‘I can’t believe it, I’m trying to wake up now.’said Tabilo, who will face Karen Khachanov in the round of 16 on Tuesday. The Russian easily (6-2 and 6-4) defeated the Argentinean Francisco Serundolo. “I tried to control my nerves and move well; Obviously you feel like you’re getting close to the end, but I felt a little more tired and had to run a little less. So I tried not to think about it too much and go point by point. This is madness. “I can’t believe what just happened to me.”he added.
Djokovic, hit in the head by an accidentally dropped bottle on Friday for the fan who asked for an autograph, the meeting started off completely off-center. Thus, they lost at the start with an unprecedented score of 0:4. Tabilo played with amazing restraint. Yano’s pulse, as he was nicknamed, did not waver starting with a powerful and accurate serve, and he also had a good hand for forehands and drops., his favorite hit. In his biography, he highlights the fact that Rome is his favorite city on tour and Rafa Nadal is his idol. His performance would have been signed by the Balearic Islands. Raised in Canada and the United States, he left home at age 14 and turned professional in 2015. Less than a year ago they were not even in the Top 100, but this season they have risen.
Champion of Auckland and finalist of Santiago de Chile, before arriving in the Eternal City, Alejandro signed up for the Aix-en-Provence Challenger tournament., where he beat the Spaniard Jaume Munar in the final. A few days later, he celebrated an impressive victory over the legendary Djokovic, who tried unsuccessfully in the second set. In fact, Tabilo closed it to others sooner than expected. In any case, this is not a good year for the Balkans. United Cup quarter-final, Australian Open semi-final, Indian Wells third round shot against Italian Luca Nardi (123rd at the time) and defeat in the penultimate round of Monte Carlo from the Norwegian Casper Ruud before a new fiasco in Rome.
bad feelings
Last year he did not make it past the quarterfinals in the Italian capital (he lost to the Dane Holger Rune).but his feelings before Roland Garros were much better. He won in Adelaide and Melbourne and left Paris with a bang. He hasn’t won a title this season and has been wavering over the decisions he makes regarding his team for months. He abandoned his coach Goran Ivanisevic and then his physical training coach Marko Panici. It seems that he has lost his way a little and his opponents are no longer afraid of him. It costs a lot to defeat someone. The law of life at 36 years old. This is the second time in his career that he has reached a Grand Slam in France without previously lifting a trophy.
Nole is one win away from being the first to reach 1100 ATP points, but at the moment he doesn’t have that opportunity., to increase his record number of Masters 1000 wins (41). His record against top-10 players was 46-1 before his loss to Tabilo, and he lost to Germany’s Alexander Zverev (ranked 17th) in the 2017 final. Tabilo, who has never beaten a top ten player in the world, breaks that barrier to become the first Chilean to beat number one since Fernando Gonzalez.beating Roger Federer in the group stage of the 2007 ATP Finals. The history of your country and tennis in general.
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