Stefanos Tsitsipas has been knocked out of the Cincinnati Open after losing 6-3, 7-5 to Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round.<\/p>\n
The 49th-ranked Greek, who reached the Cincinnati final in 2022, was beaten in 88 minutes as the Canadian returned to competition following his five-set quarter-final loss to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime controlled the opening set and continued to put pressure on Tsitsipas in the second, breaking the Greek three times.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas had opportunities to extend the match after Auger-Aliassime twice surrendered a break advantage in the second set. The Canadian also failed to serve out the match at 5-4 as the wind picked up.<\/p>\n
However, Auger-Aliassime steadied himself to close out the match, hitting his seventh ace on match point.<\/p>\n
The result gives Auger-Aliassime his fourth win over Tsitsipas in their 11 meetings.<\/p>\n
For Tsitsipas, the defeat ends his Cincinnati campaign after he opened the tournament with a 7-6(4), 7-5 victory over Valentin Royer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas has been knocked out of the Cincinnati Open after losing 6-3, 7-5 to Felix Auger-Aliassime in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740574","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=740574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}