Tiafoe topples Musetti in round two of Cincinnati Masters

American Frances Tiafoe reached the last 16 of the Western & Southern Open by defeating Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 14 seed, 6-3, 6-2 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Wednesday evening.

Tiafoe, ranked No 26, will face the winner of the match between Jiri Lehecka and Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 4 seed, next.

Ahead of his victory, the American knocked off Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (6-3, 7-6 (6)).

Musetti, ranked No 18, edged out Chilean Nicolas Jarry (4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)) in the previous round of the Cincinnati Masters.

Cincinnati Masters 1000, other second-round results:

• Casper Ruud vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
• Gael Monfils vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Holger Rune vs. Nuno Borges
• Ben Shelton vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Jack Draper vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
• Brandon Nakashima vs. Arthur Fils
• Fabian Marozsan vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Max Purcell vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
• Zhizhen Zhang vs. Andrey Rublev
• Luciano Darderi vs. Flavio Cobolli
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
• Alexander Zverev vs. Karen Khachanov
• Jiri Lehecka vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Sebastian Baez vs. Jordan Thompson: wednesday
• Jannik Sinner (1) beat Alex Michelsen (Q): 6-4, 7-5

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