2024-07-07 09:43:40
The ATP officially announced Tabilo as Chile’s new number one and national tennis has joined a select list.
It started Wimbledon 2024 This Monday, July 1, and along with it, a meeting was held New ATP ranking updatewhere the Chilean tennis players Nicolas Jarry and Alejandro Tabiloachieved a milestone that placed the country among the elite of world tennis.
After Tabilo’s great week in Spain, where he won the ATP 250 Mallorca title and became the first Chilean tennis player in the Open Era to win a tournament on grass, the left-hander became the first national racket by displacing Nicolás Jarry in the ranking, ranking 19th.
Jaime Fillol’s grandson, who had almost a month without training or competing due to complications from his vestibular neuronitis, dropped one place in the world ranking and was ranked number 20.
Besides, Cristian Garin She moved up five places after advancing through the Wimbledon qualifiers and reached the 106°. While for Thomas Barrios There were no changes and it remained in the position 196th in the world.
The historic achievement that Nicolás Jarry and Alejandro Tabilo achieved in the ATP ranking
With the recent title, Alejandro Tabilo displaced Nicolás Jarry and entered the Top 20 of the ATP ranking. In this way, Chile once again has two tennis players in the select group After 19 years, when in March 2005, Fernando Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu They appeared in positions 16 and 18, respectively.
In addition, national tennis became the third country in having more than one player in the top 20 of the world rankings.
Currently, the list is headed by the United States with three tennis players: Taylor Fritz (12°), Tommy Paul (13°) y Ben Shelton (14°).
Next on the list is Russia, which is also the only country to have two players in the world’s Top 10: Daniil Medvedev (5°) and Andrey Rublev (6°).
Now, Chile has joined with Alejandro Tabilo (19th) and Nicolas Jarry (20th)who will seek to remain in the top positions of the ATP rankings.