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Frances Tiafoe won the last match of the Cincinnati third round overnight, then got accused at the net of faking the surgery he had six days ago.

One set was a formality, the other took a tiebreak. Coco Gauff is through to the Cincinnati last 16 for the third time, and only one player has more WTA 1000 wins in 2026.

Six points on serve. All night. Fifty-four minutes is roughly how long a lunch break lasts. It is also how long Aryna Sabalenka needed to remove Wang Xinyu from the Cincinnati draw, 6-1, 6-3, without ever letting the Chinese player find an opening. No break points faced. Eight service games, six points dropped across all…

The back that cost him Montreal is holding up. Auger-Aliassime needed 87 minutes to see off Juan Manuel Cerundolo and reach the Cincinnati last 16.

Brandon Nakashima was three points from the exit in Cincinnati. He walked off with the biggest win of his summer and left Daniil Medvedev’s US Open build-up in pieces.

Alexandra Eala took a 65-minute opening set off Amanda Anisimova in Cincinnati. She won four more games after that.

Two rain stoppages, an hour each, and a tie-break to finish. Elena Rybakina spent most of Monday getting past Magdalena Frech and into the Cincinnati last 16.

A reunion that ended on a double fault Four years. That is how long it had been since Serena and Venus Williams last played doubles together. The Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio, gave them the stage on Monday night. Peyton Stearns and Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk sent them home in the first round, 6-2, 1-6, 10-8.…

Two points from the brink Flavio Cobolli got out of jail. The Italian, the No 7 seed, beat Alexander Blockx 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 on Monday in the third round of the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio. The Belgian, seeded 28th, had led 5-3 in the deciding set and served for the match. Cobolli broke back.…