{"id":56829,"date":"2025-08-04T03:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/56829\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T03:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:32:07","slug":"american-stars-look-to-complete-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/56829\/","title":{"rendered":"American Stars Look to Complete Quarter-Final\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-xxxLarge MuiTypography-paragraph css-78jjrb\">The top three Americans in the ATP rankings are all in action on Sunday in Toronto as the fourth round wraps up.<\/p>\n<p>Were Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton, and Frances Tiafoe all to win, the United States would make up 50 per cent of the quarter-final lineup at the 2025 National Bank Open after <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalbankopen.com\/news\/read\/2025\/nbo-toronto-saturday-2-results-rune-popyrin-zverev-ruud\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Michelsen was victorious on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalbankopen.com\/news\/read\/2025\/first-ever-national-bank-open-wheelchair-tournament-set-to-get-underway-in-toronto\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">inaugural wheelchair tennis event at the NBO<\/a> also kicks off on Sunday at Sobeys Stadium with three matches on Court 4.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the results as they happen.<\/p>\n<p>CENTRE COURT &#8211; start at 12:30 PM[9] Alex de Minaur (AUS) d. [7] Frances Tiafoe (USA) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4Early on, this match threatened to be one-way traffic for the 2023 Toronto runner-up. De Minaur had more jump in his step as he raced out to a quick 4-0 lead. He then broke again to start the second but Tiafoe responded as the first four games went to the returner. Still, de Minaur had a break point at 4-4 that could have gotten him out in straight sets, but Tiafoe held and then broke to send the match to a decider. The third set was a nailbiter, with both men upping their level, but this time de Minaur gritted out the decisive break in the ninth game. \u00a0[6] Andrey Rublev d. [20] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) 6-7(3), 7-6(2) 3-0 ret.There was not a single break of serve in the first two sets as the two men traded body blows for over two hours. After splitting the tiebreaks, Davidovich Fokina&#8217;s body gave out early in the third and retired after Rublev took the first three games.<\/p>\n<p>Not Before 7:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>[13] Flavio Cobolli (ITA) d. [4] Ben Shelton (USA) 6-4, 4-6 7-6(1)After doing his thing in the first set, Shelton got a bit of a taste of his own medicine in the second and third sets, as the Italian piled the pressure on the American&#8217;s mighty serve while defending his own well. Cobolli took the second and then served for the match at 5-4 in the third but that&#8217;s when the fourth seed turned on the jets. He broke back, nearly broke again for the match in the 12th game, and then won all of Cobolli&#8217;s service points in the tiebreak. [19] Jiri Lehecka (CZE) vs [2] Taylor Fritz (USA)MOTOROLA RAZR GRANDSTAND COURT &#8211; start at 12:30 PM[1] Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) \/ Mate Pavic (CRO) d. Nikola Mektic (CRO) \/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 6-3, 6-4Things got a little dicey for the top seeds when they let their break lead slip away in the second set, but they responded immediately to break back for 5-4 before serving out the match.Austin Krajicek (USA) \/ Horacio Zeballos (ARG) vs [6] Joe Salisbury (GBR) \/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 7-6(2), 6-1The first set was tight, with the sixth seeds having to rally from 4-1 and 5-3 down just to get to a tiebreak. They used the breaker as a springboard, dominating it and then cruising through the second set.<\/p>\n<p>Not Before 4:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) \/ Andres Molteni (ARG) d. Andre Goransson (SWE) \/ Sem Verbeek (NED)4-6, 7-6(5), 10-8Gonzalez and Molteni never held a break point in the match and yet played better in the tiebreaks to score the win.[Alt] Fernando Romboli (BRA) \/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) d. [3] Harri Heliovaara (FIN) \/ Henry Patten (GBR) 6-4, 6-7(9), 10-7Romboli and Smith had two match points in the second set tiebreak but could not convert. They then trailed the match tiebreak 3-1, only to win five of the next six points to take a lead they never relinquished.COURT 1 &#8211; start at 4:30 PMWheelchair &#8211; Thomas Venos (CAN) d. Shawn Courchesne (CAN) 7-1, 3-7, 7-5Venos started strong but had a hard time putting Courchesne away. He struggled in the second tiebreak and then missed his first two match points at 6-3 in the third, but finally closed it out with a big serve.Wheelchair &#8211; Rob Shaw (CAN) d. Barry Henderson (CAN) 7-4, 8-6Shaw seemed well on his way to victory when he led the second breaker 5-3 after taking the first, but he ended up needed to save a set point at 5-6 before closing it out with a forehand that painted the line.Wheelchair &#8211; Thomas Venos (CAN) \/ Rob Shaw (CAN) d. Barry Henderson (CAN) \/ Shawn Courchesne (CAN) 6-2Henderson and Courchesne got off to a strong start, breaking on their way to a 2-0 lead. But once Shaw and Venos found their rhythm, there was no stopping them as they won six straight games.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP&#8217;s best return to Toronto this summer for the National Bank Open presented by Rogers July 26 to Aug. 7, 2025 at Sobeys Stadium. 2025 Tickets are on sale. <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalbankopen.com\/toronto\/toronto-tickets-packages\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Get your tickets today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Feature Photo : Geoff Robins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top three Americans in the ATP rankings are all in action on Sunday in Toronto as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-56829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}