By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, February 22, 2026
Photograph credit score: Mark Howard
Tomas Martin Etcheverry pulled off double obligation to seize his maiden singles title in Rio.
Etcheverry transformed his third championship level capping a 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4 comeback win over Alejandro Tabilo in in the present day’s grueling three hour-four minute Rio Open remaining.
That marathon win got here hours after Etcheverry accomplished a 4-6, 7-6(2), 7-6(4) semifinal win over Vit Kopriva on Rio’s crimson clay.
Within the remaining, Etcheverry pumped 14 aces towards 4 double faults and saved six of 9 break factors to beat Tabilo for the second time this month.
Etcheverry topped Tabilo 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 within the Buenos Aires quarterfinals earlier this month.
The eighth-seeded Etcheverry, who scored his one centesimal Tour-level win on Friday, saved the Rio trophy in Argentina’s fingers for the third 12 months in a row. Sebastian Baez gained Rio in 2024 and 2025.
Etcheverry denied Tabilo’s quest to change into the primary Chilean man in Open Period historical past to win Tour-level titles on clay, grass and exhausting courts.
