Two of the ATP’s highest ranked South American stars have dedicated to play the Tour’s solely North American clay court docket event 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 a part of American Olympic medalist Tommy Paul when Houston’s ATP occasion is held March 29-April 6, 2025. “It’s all the time a privilege to welcome a world discipline to River Oaks,” mentioned event director Bronwyn Greer. “We’re thrilled so as to add gamers from international locations with wealthy tennis traditions like Argentina and Chile and look ahead to 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 event on this planet, tied with Roland Garros, the place he was a 2023 quarterfinalist on the clay court docket Grand Slam. Etcheverry boasts a 40-33 profession clay court docket document. In 2024, he was runner-up in Lyon, semifinalist in Barcelona and reached the quarterfinals at Buenos Aires and Cordoba – all clay court docket 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 wherein 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 court docket occasion in Mallorca. The 27-year-old’s 2024 clay success included a ultimate 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 house on the age of 13 to coach in Florida. Each Etcheverry and Tabilo represented their international locations on the 2024 Paris Olympics the place Paul claimed a doubles bronze medal whereas additionally reaching the singles quarterfinals.
