Alejandro Tabilo has played Novak Djokovic twice, both times on clay, and won both in straight sets. In Rome in 2024 he dropped five games. In the second round at Monte-Carlo in April 2025 he won 6-3, 6-4, and the ATP Tour reported that Djokovic could not find his range from the baseline or cope with Tabilo’s flat ball-striking. He became only the ninth player to open his head-to-head with Djokovic 2-0, and joined Jiri Vesely as a left-hander with a 2-0 record against him.
The Monte-Carlo win came with a wrist he had been taping since Miami. He lost his next match, to Grigor Dimitrov, and then had it scanned. “I did an MRI and it was almost a stress fracture,” he told ATPTour.com later that year. “So it was a pretty good win.”
Toronto, Florida, Santiago
Tabilo was born in Toronto to Chilean parents, Ricardo and María, who ran a cleaning company, according to his Laver Cup biography. Known as Jano, he followed his older brother Sebastián into tennis, left home at 13 to train in Florida, and grew up idolising Rafael Nadal, a fellow left-hander. He represented Canada throughout his junior career, according to his ATP biography, and moved to Santiago permanently at 19 to play for Chile.
From qualifying to No. 19
He started 2024 ranked 85th and came through qualifying to win his first ATP Tour title in Auckland, the first hard-court title by a Chilean since Fernando Gonzalez in 2007. He reached the final at home in Santiago, then beat Djokovic in Rome and went on to the semifinals, where he took Alexander Zverev, the eventual champion, to three sets. In June he won Mallorca, the first grass-court title by a Chilean man in the Open Era, and followed it with his first Grand Slam third round at Wimbledon, where he beat Flavio Cobolli in five sets. The two titles took him to a career-high No. 19. That September he played the Laver Cup in Berlin, the first Chilean to appear in it.
Playing hurt and Chengdu
The wrist was one of several injuries in 2025. He told ATPTour.com he tore a muscle in his abdomen after Roland Garros and twisted an ankle in Winston-Salem, and that he has a habit of playing through things he should report. “The problem with me, I really like to just dig it out and not tell anybody about my pain,” he said. He recalled training for several days at Roland Garros one year with what turned out to be appendicitis.
He finished 2025 with a third title. At the Chengdu Open in September he came through qualifying and beat Lorenzo Musetti, then ranked ninth, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(5) in the final after saving two championship points.
A first second week, in Paris
In 2026 he reached the ATP 500 final in Rio de Janeiro in February and won the Challenger 175 in Aix-en-Provence in May, according to the ATP Tour. At Roland Garros he reached the fourth round of a major for the first time, beating the 17-year-old French wild card Moise Kouame in four sets and three hours 40 minutes on Court Suzanne-Lenglen. He was the fourth Chilean man since 2000 to reach the last 16 in Paris, after Gonzalez, Cristian Garin and Nicolas Jarry, according to the tournament. Afterwards he said it was the first time he had played someone more than a decade younger than him. Felix Auger-Aliassime beat him 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 on Court Philippe-Chatrier in the fourth round.
Playing style
Tabilo is a left-hander with a two-handed backhand and a flat ball, His tour titles have come on hard courts in Auckland and Chengdu and on grass in Mallorca, and his deepest Grand Slam run came on clay in Paris. He also won six straight-set matches, five of them against Argentines, on his way to his first tour-level final as a qualifier in Cordoba in 2022, according to his ATP biography.
Grand Slam best results
- Roland Garros: fourth round (2026)
- Wimbledon: third round (2024)
- Australian Open: second round (2020, on his Grand Slam main-draw debut, after a five-set win over Daniel Elahi Galan)
Season snapshot — 21 September 2026
Ranked 32nd. This week he defends his Chengdu title as the third seed, with a bye into the second round and a first match against Shang Juncheng, the 2024 champion, or Adrian Mannarino. He arrives from Santiago, where on Sunday he and Tomás Barrios Vera lost the Davis Cup doubles to Jaume Munar and Pedro Martínez 6-0, 6-3, the rubber that put Spain into the Final 8. Where Chengdu sits in the autumn calendar is in the Asian swing explained.
This snapshot is dated and will change. The career record above does not.
