Etcheverry, Tabilo to Be part of Paul at US Clay 2025
South American Stars to Play US Clay Etcheverry & Tabilo to Be part of Paul at River Oaks
HOUSTON (December 5, 2024) – Two of the ATP’s highest ranked South American stars have dedicated to play the Tour’s solely North American clay courtroom match in 2025.
Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry, the 2023 runner-up at River Oaks Nation Membership, and Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo will participate in subsequent yr’s Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Males’s Clay Courtroom Championship.
The duo will be part of American Olympic medalist Tommy Paul when Houston’s ATP occasion is held March 29-April 6.
“It’s all the time a privilege to welcome a world discipline to River Oaks,” stated match director Bronwyn Greer. ”We’re thrilled so as to add gamers from nations with wealthy tennis traditions like Argentina and Chile and sit up for seeing Tomas and Alejandro compete for our title.”
Etcheverry will return to Houston for the third time, having reached the ultimate in 2023 and the semifinals in 2024. His six match wins at River Oaks is the same as his finest at any match on the earth, tied with Roland Garros, the place he was a 2023 quarterfinalist on the clay courtroom Grand Slam.
Etcheverry boasts a 40-33 profession clay courtroom report. In 2024, he was runner-up in Lyon, semifinalist in Barcelona and reached the quarterfinals at Buenos Aires and Cordoba – all clay courtroom occasions. Becoming outcomes for the 25-year-old who named his canine Roland Garros.
Tabilo will likely be making his debut at River Oaks after a 2024 season during which he gained a pair of titles and broke into the ATP’s High 20 for the primary time. He claimed his first profession title in January by profitable Auckland as a qualifier, then lifted the trophy on the grass courtroom occasion in Mallorca.
The 27-year-old’s 2024 clay success included a closing in Santiago and semifinals on the ATP Masters 1000 in Rome and in Bucharest. The left-handed Tabilo was born and raised in Toronto to Chilean mother and father, then left dwelling on the age of 13 to coach in Florida.
Each Etcheverry and Tabilo represented their nations on the 2024 Paris Olympics the place Paul claimed a doubles bronze medal whereas additionally reaching the singles quarterfinals.
Paul’s 2024 season was highlighted by three ATP titles and a personal-best 45 match wins which pushed him to a career-best year-end rating of No. 12. He will likely be making his fourth look at River Oaks, the place he claimed his first-ever ATP match victory in 2016.
In 2024, Ben Shelton defeated Frances Tiafoe in an all-American singles closing whereas the Australian duo of Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson gained their second straight doubles title. The 2025 U.S. Males’s Clay Courtroom Championship would be the fifteenth version of the century-old match to be held at River Oaks Nation Membership.
