{"id":19347,"date":"2025-07-24T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19347\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:23:08","slug":"tennis-atp-citi-open-2025-tien-eliminates-rublev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19347\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, ATP \u2013 Citi Open 2025: Tien eliminates Rublev"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Learner Tien beat Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 5 seed, 7-5, 6-2 to advance to the last 16 of the Citi Open at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The victory marks one of the most impressive performances of Tien\u2019s budding career and highlights his growing prowess on hard courts. Tien continues what has rapidly become a breakthrough 2025 season.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old American has now claimed multiple wins over top-10 opponents, beginning with a stunning upset of Daniil Medvedev at the Australian Open in January (6-3, 7-6(4), 6-7(8), 1-6, 7-6(7)), earning his first appearance in the fourth round of a Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

He followed that up in Acapulco with another marquee win, defeating world No.\u202f2 Alexander Zverev in straight sets, (6-3, 6-4).<\/p>\n

Tien : \u201ckeep cool in key moments\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking after the match, Tien expressed stated he simply aimed to \u201cplay aggressive and keep cool in key moments\u201d, which he did.<\/p>\n

The seasoned No.\u202f10 in the world had competed deep into Wimbledon and recently reached the semifinals in Los Cabos, raising questions about possible fatigue entering Washington. He later admitted that he \u201cfelt the legs weren\u2019t fresh tonight,\u201d suggesting his intense schedule may have played a role in the outcome.<\/p>\n

Tien, ranked No 67, will play the winner of the match between No 12 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Jaume Munar next. The 19-year-old American won against wildcard Emilio Nava (6-1, 6-4) ahead of his victory.<\/p>\n


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Washington ATP 500, other second-round results (William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, hard, USD 2.396.115, most recent results first):<\/p>\n

Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Frances Tiafoe<\/p>\n

Flavio Cobolli vs. Yoshihito Nishioka: wednesday<\/p>\n

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Jaume Munar: wednesday<\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz (1) beat Aleksandar Vukic: 6-3, 6-2<\/p>\n

Alex De Minaur (7) beat Yunchaokete Bu: 7-6 (5), 6-2<\/p>\n

Matteo Arnaldi beat Lorenzo Sonego (16): 7-5, 7-5<\/p>\n

Daniil Medvedev (8) beat Reilly Opelka: 3-6, 7-5, 6-1<\/p>\n

Jiri Lehecka (11) beat Zachary Svajda (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3<\/p>\n

Yibing Wu (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin (10): 7-5, 5-7, 6-3<\/p>\n

Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-0, 6-1<\/p>\n

Daniel Evans (WC) beat Alex Michelsen (13): 6-4, 6-4<\/p>\n

Ben Shelton (4) beat Mackenzie McDonald (WC): 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n

Gabriel Diallo (15) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n

Cameron Norrie beat Lorenzo Musetti (2): 3-6, 6-2, 6-3<\/p>\n

Brandon Nakashima (14) beat Ethan Quinn (WC): 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Learner Tien beat Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 5 seed, 7-5, 6-2 to advance to the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-19347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}