Twenty-four hours after bringing down the defending champion, Hubert Hurkacz (20th in the world) offered Stefanos Tsitsipas (4th) in the round of 16 of the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati (6-3, 6-4). The Pole won after a match where he did not let go of his face-off and where he managed to break Tsitsipas at the start of each set. Running after the score, the Greek never managed to catch up, not even getting any break point in the second set.
Qualified for the quarter-finals after his first victory against a member of the top 10 for a year (Montreal 2022), Hurkacz will face the Australian Alexei Popyrin (58th in the world) before, perhaps, finding the world n ° 1 Carlos Alcaraz in halves.
