Tennis, ATP – Cincinnati Masters 2024: Tsitsipas sees off Struff
Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the No 9 seed, defeated German Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Wednesday afternoon.
Tsitsipas trailed by a set and a break before storming back. He now leads the head-to-head series with Struff 6-4 (5-4 at the ATP level).
The world No 11 will play the winner of the match between Jack Draper and Spanish qualifier Jaume Munar on Thursday at the Cincinnati Masters.
Cincinnati Masters 1000, other first-round results:
- Gael Monfils vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Sebastian Korda
- Jack Draper vs. Jaume Munar
- Max Purcell vs. Tomas Machac
- Holger Rune vs. Matteo Berrettini: wednesday
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Nuno Borges: wednesday
- Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Aleksandar Kovacevic (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Fabian Marozsan beat Corentin Moutet (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Arthur Fils beat Brandon Holt (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Brandon Nakashima (WC) beat Taylor Fritz (11): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
- Yoshihito Nishioka (Q) beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 6-4, 7-5
- Lorenzo Musetti (14) beat Nicolas Jarry: 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)
- Ben Shelton (12) beat Reilly Opelka (WC): 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
- Jordan Thompson beat Ugo Humbert (13): 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Alex Michelsen (Q) beat Tallon Griekspoor: 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
- Jiri Lehecka beat Mariano Navone: 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Frances Tiafoe beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- 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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