Cincinnati Masters: Clutch Draper sends Tsitsipas home
The win is Draper’s fourth top-20 scalp of the season, and sees his record against Tsitsipas improve to 2-0. Another victory would see the Brit achieve a new career-high next Monday, with the 22-year-old already up to No 27 in the live rankings.
Tsitsipas, meanwhile, blew a prime chance to re-enter the world’s top 10, and will be left ruing his chances in a match where he sprayed 23 unforced errors – including seven double faults – and only converted two of six break points.
Draper, ranked No 27, will play the winner of the match between Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 7 seed, and Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime next.
In the previous round of the Cincy Open, Jack Draper edged out Spanish qualifier Jaume Munar (7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5)).
Tsitsipas, ranked No 11, beat German Jan-Lennard Struff (4-6, 6-4, 6-3) in the previous round of the Cincy Open.
Cincinnati Masters 1000, other second-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 6.795.555, most recent results first):
- Casper Ruud vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Gael Monfils vs. Carlos Alcaraz
- Holger Rune (15) beat Nuno Borges (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (8)
- Ben Shelton (12) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-7 (6), 7-6 (7), 6-3
- Brandon Nakashima (WC) beat Arthur Fils: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Andrey Rublev (6) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-4, 6-3
- Fabian Marozsan beat Grigor Dimitrov (8): 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Pablo Carreno Busta beat Max Purcell (WC): 6-3, 6-3
- Hubert Hurkacz (5) beat Yoshihito Nishioka (Q): 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Flavio Cobolli beat Luciano Darderi: 7-6 (4), 3-1 ret.
- Alexander Zverev (3) beat Karen Khachanov: 6-3, 6-2
- Jiri Lehecka beat Daniil Medvedev (4): 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Jordan Thompson beat Sebastian Baez: 6-2, 6-4
- Frances Tiafoe beat Lorenzo Musetti (14): 6-3, 6-2
- Jannik Sinner (1) beat Alex Michelsen (Q): 6-4, 7-5
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