{"id":80251,"date":"2025-08-13T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80251\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:27:07","slug":"frances-tiafoe-retires-in-cincinnati-holger-rune-reaches-qfs-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80251\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe retires in Cincinnati, Holger Rune reaches QFs | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Cincinnati<br \/>\n    Tiafoe retires injured in Cincinnati, Rune advances to QFs<\/p>\n<p>Seventh seed Rune will face Fritz or Atmane for semi-final spot<\/p>\n<p>August 13, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tiafoe-cincinnati-2025-wednesday.jpg\" alt=\"Frances Tiafoe received a medical timeout during his fourth-round clash with Holger Rune on Wednesday in Cincinnati.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Frances Tiafoe received a medical timeout during his fourth-round clash with Holger Rune on Wednesday in Cincinnati.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/frances-tiafoe\/td51\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frances Tiafoe<\/a> suffered a setback to his U.S. hard-court summer on Wednesday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/cincinnati\/422\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Open<\/a>. The home favourite was forced to retire from his fourth-round match at the ATP Masters 1000 event against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/holger-rune\/r0dg\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holger Rune<\/a> due to a lower back injury. <\/p>\n<p> The 10th-seeded Tiafoe at one point led 3-0 in his third Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Rune, but after relinquishing that lead he received treatment on his lower back at 4-5. With Tiafoe unable to serve at full pace, Rune had moved into a 6-4, 3-1 lead when the American retired. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get well soon Frances \ud83d\ude4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holgerrune2003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@holgerrune2003<\/a> is through to the quarter-finals as Tiafoe retires due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Final score: 6-4 3-1 RET.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CincyTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CincyTennis<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincyTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CincyTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cKVtZEXBSa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cKVtZEXBSa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1955667755669115309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 13, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p> Tiafoe, who reached his maiden Masters 1000 championship match in Cincinnati a year ago, will hope to recover quickly before heading to New York for his home Grand Slam at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/us-open\/560\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a>. The 27-year-old is a two-time semi-finalist at Flushing Meadows, including last year when he fell to his countryman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/taylor-fritz\/fb98\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Fritz<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> The No. 9 in the PIF ATP Rankings, Rune stepped on court Wednesday hoping to avenge his 2024 semi-final defeat to Tiafoe. The Dane will take on fourth seed Fritz or French qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/terence-atmane\/a0gc\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Atmane<\/a> in the quarter-finals this year. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cFrom 4-4, when I got the break and at 5-4 when he had the medical timeout, that\u2019s when I felt something was not right with him and after obviously, I could see he was struggling a little bit,\u201d said Rune. \u201cAs the game is, I tried to move him as much as possible. It\u2019s never nice to finish a match like this and I wish him the best recovery.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Tiafoe retires injured in Cincinnati, Rune advances to QFs Seventh seed Rune will face Fritz or Atmane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-80251","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\/80251","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=80251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}