Tiafoe Beats Auger-Aliassime 6-3 6-4 in Cincinnati Last 16

Frances Tiafoe controlled a tidy straight-sets win over Felix Auger-Aliassime, 6-3 6-4, to reach the quarter-finals in Cincinnati. The American landed only 43.8 percent of his first serves, yet he was rarely troubled behind them, winning 71.4 percent of those points and an unusually strong 61.1 percent on his second delivery, with just one double fault. Auger-Aliassime's 13 aces and 73 percent behind the first ball counted for less because his second serve leaked badly, yielding only 32 percent of its points alongside four double faults. That gap decided both sets and carried Tiafoe through the Masters 1000 round of 16.