{"id":66832,"date":"2025-08-14T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66832\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:56:07","slug":"its-been-a-terrible-day-for-american-tennis-as-four-top-seeds-all-lose-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66832\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a terrible day for American tennis as four top seeds all lose in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cincinnati Open is rapidly progressing, with fans certain to be desperate to see American players go as far as possible.<\/p>\n

There was Cincinnati Open<\/a> heartbreak for such players last year, with both Frances Tiafoe<\/a> and Jessica Pegula<\/a> losing the finals.<\/p>\n

The ATP<\/a> star lost 7-6(7-4), 6-2 to top seed Jannik Sinner, with the WTA<\/a> ace losing 6-3, 7-5 to top seed Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n

Many eyes are once again on American players this time around, particularly Ben Shelton after his superb Canadian Open success.<\/p>\n

He secured his maiden ATP Masters 1000 title earlier this month, overcoming Karen Khachanov in Toronto.<\/p>\n

\"FrancesPhoto by Matthew Stockman\/Getty ImagesAmerican tennis suffers terrible day at the Cincinnati Open<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Cincinnati, two-time Grand Slam champion Barbora Krejcikova tipped Iva Jovic for a big future<\/a> after beating the American on Tuesday, the same day her compatriot Coco Gauff progressed.<\/p>\n

But there was a complete turnaround just one day later, when American players suffered a complete nightmare across the ATP and WTA tours.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Ben Shelton hailed for leading Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in one key area, \u2018it\u2019s remarkable\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Tiafoe, the 10th seed, retired against Holger Rune, with fourth seed Taylor Fritz<\/a> also exiting after a shock loss to Terence Atmane.<\/p>\n

Their female counterparts then suffered the same fate, with fourth seed Pegula losing to Magda Linette and sixth seed Madison Keys<\/a> falling to Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n

American tennis players handed worrying reality check ahead of the US Open<\/p>\n

Such losses are, of course, very possible at such tournaments, but they do come at a very worrying time for American players.<\/p>\n

And that is because the US Open gets underway later this month, where home players are already under plenty of pressure.<\/p>\n

That is undoubtedly less true of those on the WTA Tour, with Keys and Gauff having already won Grand Slam titles this season.<\/p>\n

The former triumphed at the Australian Open in Melbourne, with the latter winning the French Open in Paris.<\/p>\n

In stark contrast, an American man has remarkably not won a Grand Slam title since Andy Roddick\u2019s US Open win in 2003.<\/p>\n

And given the current scenario on the ATP Tour, it seems that world number six Shelton represents his nation\u2019s best hope.<\/p>\n

That will, however, pile the pressure on the shoulders of the 22-year-old, who ensured it wasn\u2019t all disappointment for home players on Wednesday by beating Roberto Bautista Agut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Open is rapidly progressing, with fans certain to be desperate to see American players go as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1308,13301,9476,8833,18456,101,11310,118,56,54,55,6546],"class_list":{"0":"post-66832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-cincinnati-open","10":"tag-frances-tiafoe","11":"tag-jessica-pegula","12":"tag-madison-keys","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-taylor-fritz","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}