Three Interesting Facts Of Novak Djokovic's Defeat In Monte Carlo 2025

Novak Djokovic had to wait for another event to win his 100th title at the tour level (Instagram/@djokernole).

JAKARTA Novak Djokovic suffered a disappointing defeat against Chile's Alejandro Tabilo, in the second half of the Monte Carlo Masters 2025. There are three facts behind that suffering.

The defeat saw Djokovic, who won twice in Monte Carlo and 40 times won ATP Masters 1000, have to wait at least one more place to win the 100th trophy at the tour level.

Djokovic came to Monte Carlo after winning the last 10 games he has played on clay, including his journey to win the gold medal at the Paris Olympics, France, in July 2024.

Unfortunately, his efforts to become the third tennis player in the Open era to collect 100 failed tour-level titles against Tabilo, who previously also won their duel on clay at the Italian Open 2024.

Here are the three facts behind the defeat:

Djokovic dominates left-handed players

Djokovic's rival, Rafael Nadal, is a left-handed tennis player. In their career try, Djokovic was recorded as winning 31-29. However, actually Djokovic, 37, has long dominated left-handed tennis players.

Before facing Tabilo in Rome last year, Djokovic set a 107-11 win-loss record against left-handed tennis player other than Nadal with a 90.6 percent win by Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

This figure is better than the percentage of his current career wins (83.3%).

Since early 2011, Djokovic has only lost to three left-handed players who are not named Nadal: Jiri Vesely (twice), Martin Klizan, and Feliciano Lopez. Tabilo is also the latest left-handed tennis player to beat Djokovic.

Tabilo became the ninth tennis player to set a 2-0 win-loss record with Djokovic

Tabilo now joins the famous names who have recorded a successful start to the journey against the 40-time ATP Masters 1000 champion with a 2-0 win-loss record.

Only eight other players have ever achieved this feat, namely Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Fernando Verdasco, Olivier Rochus, Nick Kyrgios, Jiri Vesely, Marat Safin, and Guillermo Coria.

Only three of the players won their first two meetings with Djokovic through two straight sets. They are Nadal, Kyrgios, and Safin.

Tabilo came to Monte Carlo with the aim of looking for his best form

Tabilo arrived in Monte Carlo with a less encouraging record, winning twice and losing nine this season. He also suffered eight consecutive defeats on the previous clay field.

Before facing Djokovic, Tabilo was recorded as having a 1-8 win-loss record against the top 10. Now, both of his wins against the top 10 are against the Serbian.