Despite letting slip a break lead at 3-1 in the third set, Tabilo ultimately capitalised on Fonseca\u2019s 33 unforced errors to seal the victory on his third match point in a two-hour, 24-minute battle.<\/p>\n
“I was very connected with the team. They helped me through it all,” Tabilo said. “A lot of nerves at the end, but I feel like we played a very good game, very smart tactics and just outlasted him. I knew he was going to come out swinging and I just had to be very solid.”<\/p>\n
Tabilo won 77 per cent (40\/52) of his first-serve points and saved 57 per cent (4\/7) of the break points he faced, according to Infosys ATP Stats. With the triumph over No. 33 in the PIF ATP Rankings Fonseca, Tabilo earned his first Top-50 win on clay since upsetting No. 5 Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the second round at the ATP 1000 event Monte-Carlo last April. He will face seventh seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n Fonseca, who withdrew from Brisbane and Adelaide due to a lower back injury and lost in the opening round at the Australian Open<\/a>, was unable to hold out against the Chilean\u2019s ball-striking. He claimed his first tour-level title a year ago in Buenos Aires. The 19-year-old former Next Gen ATP Finals champion will hope to regain form when he competes next week at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, his hometown. <\/p>\n Top seed Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> won a tale of two sets against Hugo Dellien<\/a>, earning a 6-0, 7-6(6) victory on home soil. The 27-year-old saved eight set points in the second set, including a comeback from 3\/6 in the tie-break, to avoid a decider. Cerundolo previously saved three set points when serving at 4-5 and two more at 5-6.<\/p>\n Cerundolo is into his sixth Buenos Aires quarter-final in the past seven editions. He will next meet Vit Kopriva<\/a>, who defeated eighth seed Matteo Berrettini<\/a>\u2019s 6-4, 6-3. Berrettini was competing in his first tournament of the season after withdrawing from the Australian Open<\/a> due to an abdominal injury. By defeating Berrettini, Kopriva became the first Czech quarter-finalist in the tournament\u2019s history<\/p>\n Etcheverry booked his quarter-final spot by rallying past fellow Argentine Roman Andres<\/a> Burruchaga 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4. The Argentine saved a set point in the opening set. With the win, the 26-year-old recorded his 50th tour-level clay-court victory. Mariano Navone<\/a> defeated Emilio Nava<\/a> 6-2, 6-1 to book his second-round spot.<\/p>\n Watch Extended Highlights from Wednesday’s Buenos Aires action:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buenos Aires Tabilo spoils Fonseca’s Buenos Aires return, wins dramatic second-round clash Top seed Cerundolo saves eight set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-469496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n