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 12 months’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 at all times a privilege to welcome a global 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 stay 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 greatest at any event on the earth, 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 report. 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 can be making his debut at River Oaks after a 2024 season through which he received 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 last 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 dad and mom, then left dwelling 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.
