Alejandro Tabilo he was due to face Maxime Cressy for the second round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 on court 5. When the Chilean was ahead 7-6(3) and 6-5, the game had to be suspended and the players left heading to the locker room due to the heavy rains that began to fall in the city of California.
Although throughout the second quarter, the duel had to be delayed due to a drizzle when the score was in favor of ‘Jano’, on his return one imagined that they would be able to finish it without problems. However, The rains reappeared in the Californian desert tournament, which caused the definitive suspension of the match of Alejandro Tabilo.
Regarding the development of the first set, there was an even match in all aspects of the game. Through his services, the North American from France tried to impose the conditions, but faced a Chilean who was intractable in each service turn, winning 96% of the points played with the first service. Therefore, before such parity, the partial was defined in the Tie-Break, where ‘Tabigod’ became strong and ended up taking it 7-3.
The second set continued on the same path, with the difference that Alejandro Tabilo saved three break points against to maintain equality on the scoreboard. The most striking thing is that at the best moment of the third best national racket, when it was 4-3 in its favor 40-40 at the service of Cressy, the rain appeared which caused the match to be delayed. On their return, both tennis players maintained regularity, but in the 6-5 in favor of the South American, the match was suspended due to rain.
Good news for the third round
If Alejandro Tabilo advance to the third round of the first Masters 1000 of the season, it would be the first time in his career that he has reached these instances of a tournament of these characteristics, since in previous competitions the furthest he got was the second round, precisely in Indian Wells, but from 2021.
In addition, another of the great news received by the man born in Toronto, Canada, is that minutes before the day was suspended due to rain, Jordan Thompson defeated Stéfanos Tsitsipas in three sets 7-6(0), 4-6 and 7-6(5). Therefore, in the third round, the Australian will have to face the Chilean or the North American.
