Frances Tiafoe victorious over Andrey Rublev 6-4 7-6(3) in the quarter in Washington on Friday. Tiafoe will fight against Sebastian Korda in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 38 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this event. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the quarter in 2022 and 2023. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
Frances added to his prize money $ 48,735 after winning this match. He has already won $ 101,975 until now in this event. If he wins the next match, the American will add $ 94,605 to his earnings to get in total $ 196,580.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs. Andrey Rublev Citi Open – Washington
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:38
At the end of the match, Frances scored 78 points vs. Andrey’s 67.
Tiafoe
The American served extremely well to win 87% of the points (33/38) behind his first serve, and he won 54% points (14/26) on his second serve. The American won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points after he converted only 40% (2/5) of the procured opportunities.
Rublev
On the other side, Rublev was stunning in converting the only break point that he converted. Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Tiafoe and Rublev is 3-1 for Frances.
Draw and next match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Sebastian Korda – stats
Tiafoe will play Korda in the semifinal.
This will be the 6th time that Frances Tiafoe and Sebastian Korda play each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Tiafoe conquered in the 7th game (4-3) prior to ultimately winning the set (6-4).
Frances converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 40-A), the 7th (3-3 40-A) and the 11th game (6-3 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Frances didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 73 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Tiafoe won just 3 more points than Rublev (38-35). Tiafoe lost 7 points on serve (20-7). In addition, on the other side, Andrey conceded 18 points on serve (28-18).
Frances clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Tiafoe broke back in the 7th (3-4) game before bringing the set at the breaker that he won 7-3.
Tiebreak
The American won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 8th (6-2) and 10th (7-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 6-3, 7-3
Tiafoe was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 7th game (2-4 30-40). In addition on the other side, the Russian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 4th game (2-1 15-40).
They contested 72 points. Frances conquered the set after winning 6 more points than Rublev (39-33). The American surrendered 10 points on serve (26-10). On the losing side, the Russian conceded 13 points on serve (23-13).
Tennis Scores in Washington
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Andrey RublevRublev (6-4 7-63)
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-5 3-6 7-62)
- Ben SheltonShelton – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (7-65 6-6 ret.)
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-4 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Sebastian KordaKorda (3-2) – H2H details and stats
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – (1-0) – H2H details and stats
