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Six games to love in the set that mattered Frances Tiafoe won five games in the last two sets combined. Arthur Fils won the other thirteen. That was the shape of the Cincinnati final, a 6-3, 1-6, 6-0 win that hands the 22-year-old Frenchman the first Masters 1000 title of his career. The middle set…

A final Cincinnati has not seen since 1970 Fifty-six years. That is how long it has been since two Americans met for the women’s title in Mason, and Rosie Casals against Nancy Richey remains the only previous instance. Third seed Jessica Pegula and fourth-ranked Coco Gauff changed that overnight on Saturday into Sunday, booking their…

Pegula outlasted Swiatek over three sets. Gauff needed 76 minutes. Cincinnati gets its first all-American women’s final in 56 years.

Arthur Fils needed 67 minutes to end Flavio Cobolli’s dream week in Ohio. The Frenchman is into the first Masters 1000 final of his career.

A 32-shot rally at 4-4 in the tie-break decided the night Fourteen aces in one set, and Taylor Fritz still lost it. Brandon Nakashima beat him 7-6 (9), 4-6, 6-3 on Friday night in Mason, Ohio, and the 27th seed is into the Cincinnati Open semi-finals a week after making his first Masters 1000 final…

A 32-shot rally, a tiebreak that would not end, and the sixth seed sent home. Brandon Nakashima is into his second straight Masters 1000 semifinal.

Three Grand Slam champions in one week Sara Bejlek had never made it to a WTA 1000 semi-final. She has now. The 20-year-old Czech got past 20th seed Madison Keys, winning 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) in the Cincinnati quarter-finals in Mason, Ohio. Keys is the third Grand Slam winner Bejlek has knocked out in this…

The young Frenchman rediscovers the taste for victory It may have taken a tournament in Mexico, far from the noise of Roland-Garros, to see the real Moise Kouame again. The one who turned heads in Paris before slipping off the radar for a while. This week in Cancun, the Frenchman is back. And he did…

After Alcaraz, Sinner drops the bombshell Carlos Alcaraz has said yes. Jannik Sinner has just said no. Within hours of each other, Flushing Meadows got two announcements that told two completely different stories. On Thursday, the Spaniard confirmed he would be back on court for the US Open. On Friday, his Italian rival officially pulled…