Tabilo makes Chilean history with first grass title in Mallorca

pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alejandro-tabilo/te30/overview'Alejandro Tabilo/a became the first Chilean man to win a grass-court title in the Open Era with his Saturday victory at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/mallorca/8994/overview'Mallorca Championships presented by Waterdrop/a. The 27-year-old defeated a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sebastian-ofner/o513/overview'Sebastian Ofner/a 6-3, 6-4 to win the second title of both the 2024 season and his career./p

p"It's been an unbelievable year," the fourth seed said post-match. "All the support of all the Chileans at home, my team, my girlfriend. It's been a crazy year. It's been very nice, this whole level I've been playing. Hopefully I can keep it up and just keep showing what I can do."/p

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a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alejandro-tabilo/te30/overview'Alejandro Tabilo/a gets past Ofner 6-3 6-4 and becomes the first Chilean man in the Open Era to win a tour-level title on grass!a href="https://twitter.com/MallorcaChamps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@MallorcaChamps/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MallorcaChampionships?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#MallorcaChampionships/a a href="https://t.co/0x63vO3zNK"pic.twitter.com/0x63vO3zNK/a/p

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pTabilo will rise five places to a career-high PIF ATP Ranking of No. 19 behind the result, moving one place ahead of countryman a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nicolas-jarry/j551/overview'Nicolas Jarry/a on Monday. It will mark the first time since 2005 that two Chileans are inside the Top 20 (a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/fernando-gonzalez/g415/overview'Fernando Gonzalez/a, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nicolas-massu/m655/overview'Nicolas Massu/a)./p

p"It's an unreal feeling," said Tabilo, who was just inside the Top 150 this time last year. "I can't believe it. Hopefully I can keep on going up."/p

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pIn the ATP 250 final, Tabilo hit five aces and saved all three break points against him mdash; including one as he served out the match mdash; according to Infosys ATP Stats. The Chilean's ability to consistently put returns in play kept the pressure on Ofner in their first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting, with a single break of serve deciding each set./p

pTabilo won his final six sets of the tournament and lost just two sets on the week, to a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jaume-munar/mu94/overview'Jaume Munar/a in the first round and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alex-michelsen/m0qi/overview'Alex Michelsen/a in the quarter-finals. Alongside Eastbourne finalist a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/taylor-fritz/fb98/overview'Taylor Fritz/a, Tabilo is one of two men to reach finals on hard, clay and grass courts this season (Auckland, Santiago, Mallorca)./p

pOfner fell short in his bid for his first ATP Tour title. He was denied the chance to join a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/dominic-thiem/tb69/overview'Dominic Thiem/a as the only Austrian man to win an ATP Tour title on grass in Open Era./p

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