Tremendous debut for Alejandro Tabilo (24th in the world) at the ATP 250 in Mallorca, Spain. In the round of 16 (he was bye in the first round as the fourth seed) he did at a high level to advance to the quarterfinals.
The second Chilean racket defeated the Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko (58th) by partials of 6-3 and 6-2in just one hour and nine minutes of a match where he never gave up his serve and was very good in almost all facets.
The first set started quite evenly and the two players were firm until Tabilo got a key break in the eighth game and then sealed the set in the next game with his serve.
The second episode started favorably for the South American because he broke from the start in the first game, while in the next he saved a break point and in the third he could not achieve three break chances.
Meanwhile, in the fourth he saved four break points and then in the fifth he applied another break to go 4-1 up. In the end, he settled everything in the eighth with his turn without problems to settle for the first time in his career in the quarterfinals of an ATP tournament on a grass surface.
In the round of eight, Tabilo will face the winner of the key between the Czech promise Jakub Mensik (85th) and the experienced Italian Fabio Fognini (97th).
