Marcelo Tomás Barrios Vera (; born 10 December 1997), also known as Tomás Barrios Vera, is a Chilean professional

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player. Barrios has a career high ATP rankings in singles of World No. 135 achieved on 9 May 2022. He has won one Challenger title, at Meerbusch, Germany, in 2021. His best ranking in doubles is World No. 217 achieved on 28 February 2022.

Professional career

2021: Grand Slam debut, top 150 debut, first Challenger title

Barrios Vera reached his first challenger final in homesoil, at the

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challenger, but lost to

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. He reached the final of the 2021 Almaty Challenger II losing to

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, which resulted in a career-high of No. 210 on 21 June 2021. In the following week, Barrios qualified for his first Grand Slam at the

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, where he lost to former finalist Kevin Anderson in the first round. As a result, he entered the top 200 reaching a career-high ranking of No. 194 on 12 July 2021. Barrios qualified to represent Chile at the

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. He lost in the first round to Jeremy Chardy. In the following month, Barrios won his first challenger title at Meerbusch, Germany, beating

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in two sets at the final. The next day, he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 172 on 16 August 2021.

Davis Cup

Barrios Vera represents

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in the Davis Cup. He was first nominated to the team for the

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and played in a match against Dominican tennis player

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Performance timelines

Singles

''Current through the 2022 Davis Cup.''

Doubles

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles 18 (8–10)

Doubles

Davis Cup

Participations (2–5)

* indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrios Vera, Tomas 1997 births Living people Chilean male tennis players Tennis players from Santiago People from Chillán South American Games gold medalists for Chile South American Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Pan American Games medalists in tennis Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile Tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Olympic tennis players of Chile Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 20th-century Chilean people 21st-century Chilean people