Novak Djokovic has lost a big opportunity to make up ground in the ATP Rankings as he fell to a shock defeat to Alejandro Tabilo\u00a0in his first match at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n
The Serbian was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Tabilo in the second round of the Masters 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n
Djokovic<\/a> broke\u00a0the world No 32 in the first game of the match, but lost his own serve in the second and quickly found himself in trouble.<\/p>\n The former world No 1 failed to break Tabilo again in the match, with his only other chances coming late in the second set as his opponent sealed a convincing win.<\/p>\n The 24-time major winner now has a 0-2 record against Tabilo, having lost to the 27-year-old Chilean at last year\u2019s Italian Open.<\/p>\n Tabilo, who held a 3-9 record in 2025 prior to the match, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a tough year. So the nerves were there a bit. I tried to remember what I did well last time.<\/p>\n \u201cThank God I served well today. It helped me a lot to regroup my game after that first game. It was an unreal match I think.\u201d<\/p>\n On losing his first six matches of the year, Tabilo added:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s just been some tough times\u2026 personal. But we\u2019ve been trying to take care of it. Match by match we\u2019ve been getting a bit looser. Just so happy now that I\u2019m feeling better.\u201d<\/p>\n Djokovic, the world No 5, arrived in Monte Carlo in good form after reaching the final of the Miami Open, where he lost to Jakub Mensik.<\/p>\n The tennis great\u2019s strong run in Miami improved his prospects of returning to the top four in the rankings \u2014 which could be important to his Grand Slam hopes.<\/p>\n This is\u00a0because the top four seeds cannot play each other until the semi-finals at any tournament, which tends to be advantageous.<\/p>\n The 3 men to hold a 2-0 record over Novak Djokovic: Alejandro Tabilo joins exclusive club<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic\u2019s prize money comments questioned as \u2018bigger picture\u2019 may be the primary focus<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n At the Australian Open, a seventh-seeded Djokovic had to face Carlos Alcaraz in the last eight, and although he won the match, it certainly made his route harder.<\/p>\n Djokovic, the world No 5, had a great chance to close the gap to world No 4 Taylor Fritz in Monte Carlo as the American pulled out of the event.<\/p>\n However, the\u00a037-year-old will finish the tournament 1,160 points adrift of the American after being only 770 behind at the start.<\/p>\n This is because Djokovic reached the semi-finals in Monte Carlo in 2024 and he will, therefore, drop 390 points due to his second round exit this time.<\/p>\n The Serbian was on the same side of the Monte Carlo draw as top seed Alexander Zverev, who lost his first match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Djokovic will have further opportunities at the Masters 1000 tournaments in Madrid and Rome, while Fritz is set to play the ATP 500 tournament in Munich next week.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0The 5 men with the most wins from their first 100 clay matches: ft. Alcaraz and Nadal<\/a> The post Novak Djokovic suffers blow in French Open seed race with\u00a0shocking Monte Carlo loss<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novak Djokovic has lost a big opportunity to make up ground in the ATP Rankings as he fell to a shock defeat to Alejandro Tabilo\u00a0in his first match at the 2025 Monte Carlo Masters. The Serbian was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Tabilo in the second round of the Masters 1000 tournament. Djokovic broke\u00a0the world No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Novak Djokovic News<\/h2>\n
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