Frances Tiafoe gets the better of Alexei Popyrin 6-4 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3 in the 4th round in New York on Sunday. Tiafoe is going to play against Grigor Dimitrov in the quarter. His best result in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
The American added to his prize money $ 205,000 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 530,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tiafoe will add $ 470,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 1,000,000 in total.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs. Alexei Popyrin U.S. Open – New York
Tiafoe’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
After this match, the head to head between Tiafoe and Popyrin is 1-0 for Frances.
Draw and next match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Grigor Dimitrov – stats
Tiafoe will square off with Dimitrov in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Frances Tiafoe and Grigor Dimitrov face off. The head to head is 3-1 for Dimitrov (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the American conquered in the 9th game (5-4) prior to finally winning the set (6-4).
The American was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 9th game (4-4 30-40). On the other side, the Australian was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 3rd game (2-1 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 56 points. Tiafoe was the one to win the set after conquering 6 points more than the Australian (31-25). The American surrendered 6 points on serve (21-6). On the losing side, the Australian conceded 10 points on serve (19-10).
The American won 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 9th (4-5) game before bringing the set at the breaker that he won 7-3.
Tiebreak
Tiafoe won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (4-1), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, the Australian won a minibreak in the 6th (2-4) point.
Tiafoe won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
They contested 86 points. Tiafoe was the winner of the set after clinching 6 more points than Alexei (46-40). Frances dropped 11 points on serve (25-11). on the other side of the net, the Australian conceded 21 points on serve (29-21).
Popyrin in this set played at a much higher level than Frances and without struggling too much he won 6-2 after breaking the American in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Popyrin missed the chance to break the American in the 5th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Alexei was spot on in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 0-40), the 5th (3-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). On the other side, Alexei didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 44 points. The Australian conquered the set after winning 12 points more than Tiafoe (28-16). The Australian surrendered 6 points on serve (16-6). In addition, on the other side, the American conceded 12 points on serve (10-12).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the American snatched in the 6th game (4-2) prior to eventually conquering the set (6-3).
Tiafoe converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th game (3-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Popyrin wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 9th game (3-5 40-A).
They played 51 points. Frances was the one to win the set after conquering 5 more points than Popyrin (28-23). Tiafoe surrendered 9 points on serve (22-9). In addition, on the other side, Alexei conceded 6 points on serve (14-6).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Andrey RublevRublev (6-3 7-63 1-6 3-6 6-3)
- Taylor FritzFritz – Casper RuudRuud (3-6 6-4 6-3 6-2)
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-4 7-63 2-6 6-3)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (3-6 6-1 6-2 6-2)
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