Demetrios Cesar

Karolina Muchova has no clues against Gracheva and continue to overhit the balls in an empty stadium under record heat.

I don't blame her.

Khachanov decided to play for real the North-American summer swing.

He's (temporarily) back to Top 10 and just 5 points to #9 Lorenzo Musetti.

[3] or [27] Nakashima next.

3 withdraws today: Mensik, Yastremska and Kostyuk.

The last two gave walkovers to [2] Gauff and [3] Swiatek.

People who bought the tickets got less for their money, but that’s life.

Mensik mid-match withdraw sent lucky loser #98 Luca Nardi to R4 against [2] Alcaraz.

He lost in qualies to Block.

#89 Adrian Mannarino is in a 5 winning streak in Cincinnati reaching R4 after defeating [13] Paul 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

He beat #188 Krueger and #115 Svrcina in the qualies, #50 Thompson, [19] Machac and #16 Paul in the main draw.

+18 —> #71, he will play [1] Jannik Sinner next, the defending champion.

João Fonseca +8 —> #44, career high, with R3 in Cincinnati.

Thanks in part to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.

Playing with the fire alarm off in Cincinnati is better than in Roland Garros against a French.

At least there's no insults and slurs.

Playing with a fire alarm off in Cincinnati is still better than USOpen's Arthur Ashe night session.

Definitely quieter.

I would say Fonseca has no chance of winning playing that far from the baseline on hard courts.

Medvedev is being honoured.

in a tennis world full of divas, you have to love Sinner and Diallo

playing through a literal fire alarm

and they had already played through flickering LED screens

Sinner and Diablo ready to play with alarms going off thanks to being interrupted twice already due to the scoreboard not working, and then flashing

#52 Fonseca losing badly (3-6, 0-4) to qualifier #136 Terence Atmane, from France.

Fonseca looking like other South American players unable to play outdoor hard courts events in North America, just like Argentinian Sebastian Báez, and Fonseca trains in Florida.

What happened? I didn't understand the umpire explanation: a malfunction of...

Diallo still in his blond phase.

I disagree. Sabalenka lost Roland Garros’ final with 70 unforced errors and she said in the interview that this maybe was the cause of the defeat.

She won today difficultly with 69 unforced errors.

Encouraging result for Raducanu, despite the defeat.

She hold Sabalenka for 3h and 9 minutes and the defending champion needed to give all she had and only got the victory in the tiebreak of the third.

the WTA will always deliver iconic and deeply unserious moments

The rational is -13 Sabalenka and -15 Raducanu.

Not the best from both.

7th ace from Raducanu, one more than Sabelenka.

Detail: 9 double faults for Emma and only 3 for Aryna.

An unexpected match.

Third set tiebreak to decide Sabalenka X Raducanu, the only way possible for such a tight match.

Aryna with 67 unforced errors and Raducanu, 41.

Considering that there are no breaks in the third set so far, it leans toward epic. Sabalenka giving Raducanu all she can and Raducanu holding firm.

This match Sabalenka X Raducanu being much more competitive than expected is becoming more and more interesting as it goes towards its end.

Sabalenka’s opinion is the bounce in Cincinnati main court is as bad as a clay court in a ATP 250 in South America.

Sabalenka is not happy with the conditions of the court.

If Raducanu wins this, she’ll be temporarily #33, likely a seed at USOpen, as Badosa will probably withdraw.

Raducanu took a set from Sabalenka, the defending champion.

Going three, kind a surprise, a welcome surprise.

🤷🏽‍♂️

Rinderknech is the new Milos Raonic.

Or the new Kevin Anderson.

Serve bots are alive.

Aliassime and Rinderknech are playing to empty stands, but at least the seats are all brand new in a beauty court shining impeccably after US$ 300 million renovation work.

I have to agree that Félix Auger-Aliassime with a hat on sounds like an alert on how much the heat is being hard to the players in Cincinnati.

11 seeds out in the first match (2nd round) in Cincinnati 2025:

[8] Navarro
[13] Samsonova
[14] Shnaider
[15] Kasatkina
[17] Bencic
[18] Haddad Maia
[20] Noskova
[21] Fernandez
[22] Frech
[24] Kenin
[27] Pavlyuchenkova

[10] Svitolina is playing.
[11] Muchova will play later tonight.