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American Frances Tiafoe, the No 17 seed, beat Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 10 seed, 7-6 (2), 7-5, to reach the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Open on Friday night, setting off one of the loudest roars of the week from the home crowd.<\/p>\n
It is Tiafoe\u2019s third ATP Masters 1000 semi-final, after 2023 Indian Wells and 2024 Cincinnati, and his first at this level in two years \u2013 in 2024 he went all the way to the Cincinnati final, still the deepest Masters 1000 run of his career.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The win extends Tiafoe\u2019s run of top-20 wins to three in a row, following victories over No 16 seed Learner Tien and No 2 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the previous two rounds \u2014 the win over Auger-Aliassime his lone top-10 scalp in that streak. <\/p>\n
Musetti broke early in the first set to lead 3-2, but Tiafoe broke straight back in a marathon game to level at 3-3, and the two held serve the rest of the way to a tiebreak that Tiafoe dominated 7-2. The pattern repeated in the second: Tiafoe broke early to lead 5-3, only for Musetti to break back and level at 5-5, before Tiafoe broke again immediately and served out the match 7-5.<\/p>\n
It moves him to 4-3 in his overall series with Musetti and 3-1 on hard courts. His semi-final meeting with Brandon Nakashima also marks the first time two American men have reached the Cincinnati semi-finals since Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish in 2010.<\/p>\n
For Musetti, the loss extends his wait for a first Top 25 win since the Australian Open, where he beat both Tomas Machac and Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open \u2022Quarter-final \u2022 Completed See draw American Frances Tiafoe, the No 17 seed, beat Italian Lorenzo Musetti,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-864047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}