The Chilean lefty made a good start to his Rio Open presented by Claro<\/a> on Monday when he ousted American Emilio Nava<\/a> 6-3, 6-3 in only 63 minutes.<\/p>\n Tabilo is fresh off a run to the quarter-finals at the ATP 250 event in Buenos Aires, where he beat Joao Fonseca<\/a>. Now the former No. 19 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, a three-time ATP Tour champion, will pursue his first ATP 500 title.<\/p>\n The victor claimed 86 per cent of his service points according to Infosys ATP Stats and did not face a break point against the American. Tabilo will next play qualifier Dino Prizmic<\/a> or lucky loser Francesco Passaro<\/a>.<\/p>\n German Yannick Hanfmann<\/a> also came out of the gates well with a 7-6(3), 6-4 triumph against Brazilian wild card Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cVery satisfied, of course. Getting through a tough first match playing a Brazilian on the centre court is not the easiest task,\u201d Hanfmann said. \u201cI knew that, especially a night session. I served quite well, tried to stay composed throughout the whole match. I knew it was going to be tricky.\u201d<\/p>\n Serbian Dusan Lajovic<\/a>, an ATP Masters 1000 finalist on clay at Monte-Carlo in 2019, earned his first Lexus ATP Head2Head series win against Daniel Altmaier<\/a> 6-4, 7-6(7). Altmaier still leads their series 2-1.<\/p>\n Other players who advanced on the first day of the main draw were Thiago Agustin Tirante<\/a>, a 7-5, 6-3 winner against Cristian Garin<\/a>, and Ignacio Buse<\/a>, who rallied past qualifier Igor Marcondes<\/a> 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Vit Kopriva<\/a> also reached the second round with a 6-2, 7-6(5) victory against wild card Gustavo Heide<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the only doubles match of the day, Brazilian sensation Joao Fonseca<\/a> partnered countryman Marcelo Melo<\/a> past alternates Roman Andres<\/a> Burruchaga and Andrea Pellegrino<\/a> 6-4, 6-4. It was the first tour-level doubles win of Fonseca’s career.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rio de Janeiro Is Tabilo a player to watch in Rio de Janeiro? Chilean makes confident start Fonseca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-480580","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\/480580","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=480580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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