Cincinnati Masters: Tiafoe stronger than Davidovich Fokina to reach second round
Frances Tiafoe defeated Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 7-6 (6) on Tuesday evening and will face the winner of the match between Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 14 seed, and Chilean Nicolas Jarry in the next round
Frances Tiafoe, Cincinnati (Zuma / Panoramic)
American Frances Tiafoe defeated Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 7-6 (6) to advance to the second round of the Cincinnati Masters at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Tuesday evening.
Tiafoe, ranked No 26, will face the winner of the match between Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 14 seed, and Chilean Nicolas Jarry next.
Cincinnati Masters 1000, other first-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):
- Brandon Holt vs. Arthur Fils
- Gael Monfils vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Nuno Borges
- Holger Rune vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Jack Draper vs. Jaume Munar
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Corentin Moutet
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Sebastian Korda
- Max Purcell vs. Tomas Machac
- Taylor Fritz vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Ben Shelton vs. Reilly Opelka
- Jordan Thompson vs. Ugo Humbert
- Alex Michelsen vs. Tallon Griekspoor: tuesday
- Jiri Lehecka vs. Mariano Navone: tuesday
- Luciano Darderi beat Alejandro Tabilo: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Sebastian Baez beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (6)
- Zhizhen Zhang beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Karen Khachanov beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-0, 6-3
- Flavio Cobolli beat Tommy Paul (10): 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
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