Jódar – Tabilo, live | Paris Bercy Tennis Masters 1000

Game, set and match for Jódar. It started better than it finished, but it still helped him win the game clearly in just an hour and a quarter. Now, to wait for a rival between Ruud and Cerúndolo.

Well, Jódar has reappeared at the most important moment, perhaps not with his best version, but with his most determined one. 5-3 after 3 break balls and it will serve to win the match.

Jódar wins his serve again and leads 4 to 3. We face the final stretch of the second set.

The tables have turned a little now. Jódar is more flawed and Tabilo, without being brilliant, is showing greater solidity. Ecuador of the sleeve with an equal score.

Well, the surprise comes. Tabilo breaks Jódar’s serve. He is winning many more points over the rest than with the serve, the Chilean. We have a new set when everything seemed to be heading towards a simple and quick end to the match.

I haven’t said anything… Jódar’s blank break, destroying his rival. The second set is back on track when we are 51 minutes into the match. Not a single mistake, Rafa.

Well, Tabilo has woken up. It was about time, too. Jódar took the game with his serve, but the Chilean had a couple of break points and was seen differently on the court. In fact, such was his frustration that he threw his racket to the ground after a mistake.

Finally a game arrived for the Chilean. A couple of good first serves and an unforced error by Jódar on the forehand paved the way for Tabilo to manage, not without suffering (30-40), to make the score 1-1 in this second set.

Jódar has started where he left off. Powerless for now, Tabilo doesn’t know how to hurt Jódar who appears much superior on the court.

What a show by Jódar. He needed five break and set points, but a double fault from Tabilo ended up tipping the balance. What an exhibition of remains the Spanish tennis player has linked. Just over half an hour and he’s already up a set. Tabilo, perplexed by what happened in the first set: he broke up and then came 5 consecutive games to close the set.

This is going very fast. Errors from the Chilean, aces and winning shots from Jódar… We have gone 5-2 in just 25 minutes of the match, on the verge of Rafa taking the first set after the start got complicated.

We reached the halfway point of the first set with the hawk’s eye problem solved and with Jódar in steamroller mode. Two breaks in a row thanks, above all, to two sensational returns. There is only one tennis player on the court right now; has been break, again, blank.

The game was very difficult for Jódar at 40-0, but Tabilo wanted to spice up the game until 40-30. An ace from Madrid solved it. Jódar leads the scoreboard again.

Immediate reaction from Jódar. Break blank without giving the rival an option. Let’s see if it helps you take the initiative again. He has been much more aggressive now compared to the rest.

In all this the game has fallen on Tabilo’s side. Break for the Chilean after Jódar had a couple of advantages to finish the game. The sound problem with Hawkeye continues.

Be careful, there’s a problem: the hawk’s eye sound doesn’t work. There are no line judges here, only the main chair umpire. What happens is that, when the ball goes out, the hawk’s eye makes a sound that warns of the error. Well, that ‘out’ sound is not working and it is the chair umpire, when the light turns on that has a place, who sings the out and of course, it takes a little longer than usual.

Well, same script as the first game. The score was 30-all with very positive actions for both players, but Tabilo’s serve at the end made the difference.

The game is already underway with a first game and things have started interestingly, without hesitation. The game was at 30-30, but a winning first forehand and an ace gave Jódar the advantage on the scoreboard. Let’s see how the rest goes.

Draw, warm-up and this starts shortly. The Chilean and the Spanish, practically ready to start the match of the first round of the Paris Masters 1000 on the center court.

Despite Jódar’s youth, these two tennis players have already met four times; today, the fifth. Until now, the Spanish tennis player dominates: three wins for Jódar to only one for Alejandro Tabilo.

Very good afternoon! Today almost half of Spain is celebrating and the other half is working. It’s okay, there are times for everything in this life. The thing is that, for some and for others, today Rafa Jódar plays again against Alejandro Tabilo. Last week they met in Basel and today they repeat, in this case in the first round of the Paris Masters 1000. Let’s hope things go as well as last week and end with a victory for the Spanish.