Tenacious Tiafoe survives Berrettini in the 1st round of the Western & Southern Open. HIGHLIGHTS – CINCINNATI RESULTS

    WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN - CINCINNATI DRAW AND RESULTS. Tiafoe outlasts Berrettini to face Sebastian Korda in the 2nd round

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    Luke Meyer
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    Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Matteo Berrettini

    Frances Tiafoe outlasts Matteo Berrettini 7-6(3) 4-6 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Cincinnati on Monday after conquering a huge battle. Tiafoe will clash against Sebastian Korda in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 51 minutes. His best achievement in this tournament was reaching the 3rd round in 2017. Here you can see his history at this event.

    Tiafoe
    Cincinnati
    Tiafoe's Record

    The American added to his prize money $ 20,205 after winning this match. He has won already $ 45,315 after this win. If he wins the next match, Frances will add $ 39,195 to his earnings to get in total $ 84,510 in total.

    Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs. Matteo Berrettini Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati

    Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

    Tiafoe
    Berrettini
    Frances Tiafoe
    7-63 4-6 7-65
    2h:51
    Matteo Berrettini
    120
    120
    Total points
    112
    112
    48
    48
    Winners
    62
    62
    40%
    40%
    Ratio Winners
    55%
    55%
    -- Serve --
    16
    16
    Aces
    12
    12
    2
    2
    Double Faults
    3
    3
    55%
    55%
    1st in
    62%
    62%
    83%
    83%
    1st won
    78%
    78%
    48/58
    48/58
    1st won
    62/79
    62/79
    66%
    66%
    2nd won
    50%
    50%
    31/47
    31/47
    2nd won
    24/48
    24/48
    -- Break Points --
    0/8
    0/8
    Total
    1/2
    1/2
    0%
    0%
    Won
    50%
    50%
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    At the end of the match, Frances scored 120 points vs. Matteo’s 112.

    Tiafoe

    Tiafoe served pretty well to win 83% of the points (48/58) behind his first serve, and he won 66% points (31/47) on his second serve. Tiafoe struck 16 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Tiafoe wasn’t able to conquer any break point to win the match only at the breakers.

    Berrettini

    On the other side, Berrettini was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.

    After this match, the head to head between Tiafoe and Berrettini is 1-1.

    Draw and next match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Sebastian Korda – stats

    Tiafoe will face Korda in the 2nd round.

    This will be the 4th time that Frances Tiafoe and Sebastian Korda fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

    The last time that they competed against each other, Tiafoe won 4-6 7-62 6-4 in the semifinal in Estoril back in April 2022.

    Frances Tiafoe Draw info

    Live score progression and stats

    Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, Tiafoe won the tiebreak at 7-3.

    Tiebreak

    Tiafoe won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 8th (5-3), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, the Italian won a minibreak in the 2nd (1-1) point.

    This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3

    The American was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Berrettini wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 10th game (5-4 40-A).

    They contested 82 points. Frances was the one to win the set after conquering 4 points more than the Italian (43-39). Tiafoe dropped 11 points on serve (30-11). Regarding the other side of the net, Matteo conceded 13 points on serve (28-13).

    Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Berrettini grabbed in the 5th game (3-2) prior to finally conquering the set (6-4).

    Berrettini was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 5th game (2-2 15-40). On the other side, Frances was flawless in converting all his break points in the 6th (2-3 30-40) and the 10th game (4-5 30-40).

    They contested 65 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Matteo won just 3 more points than Frances (34-31). Matteo surrendered 13 points on serve (24-13). In addition, on the other side, Tiafoe conceded 10 points on serve (18-10).

    Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Eventually, the American won the breaker at 7-5.

    Tiebreak

    Frances won 2 minibreaks in the 7th (4-3) and 12th (7-5) point.

    This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5

    The American was unable to convert any of the 4 conquered break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 8th (4-3 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A). On the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

    They played 85 points. The American was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Matteo (45-40). Tiafoe surrendered 5 points on serve (29-5). Regarding the other side of the net, the Italian conceded 16 points on serve (35-16).

     

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