Matteo Berrettini and Frances Tiafoe are scheduled to face one another in the Opening round of the 2022 Cincinnati Open on Monday, August 15.
Matteo Berrettini appeared to be taking the tennis world by storm in his first three tournaments after returning to competitive tennis following fitness issues. He won two of them on grass, at Stuttgart and the Queen’s Club, and then missed Wimbledon due to Covid, but returned to reach the final of the Gstaad Open. That was a clay competition. However, the abrupt transition to hard court surfaces did not go well for him. Berrettini’s first-round bye at the Canadian Open was followed by a shocking straight-set loss to Pablo Carreno-Busta. Carreno-Busta is no slouch with a tennis racquet, but for Berrettini to succumb to a 6-3, 6-2 defeat is disappointing.
While Frances Tiafoe would have preferred to perform much better than his second round loss in Montreal, especially after reaching the semifinals in Atlanta and the quarterfinals in Washington, one could blame the draw for that. Tiafoe faced off against fellow American and in-form Taylor Fritz in the final set before succumbing 5-7, 6-1, 6-4. He had previously needed a third set against Benjamin Bonzi in his Canadian Open opener. Tiafoe’s best performance in this tournament was a third-round appearance in 2017, but he has since exited in the first, second, and second rounds in Cincinnati. In his first match, he will face a potential top-10 player.
Matteo Berrettini and Frances Tiafoe are scheduled to face one another in the Opening round of the 2022 Cincinnati Open on Monday, August 15. The tournament is scheduled to run from August 14 till August 21.
The 2022 Cincinnati Open will see six rounds of action excluding the qualifiers. These include the round of 64, round of 32, round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final for both men’s and women’s. The tournament is scheduled to commence on August 14 and conclude on August 21 this year.
Competition Stage | Date |
Round of 64 | August 14 , 16 |
Round of 32 | August 16 , 17 |
Round of 16 | August 18 |
Quarter-finals | August 19 |
Semi-finals | August 20 |
Finals | August 21 |
Player | Seed |
Daniil Medvedev | 1 |
Rafael Nadal | 2 |
Carlos Alcaraz | 3 |
Stefanos Tsitsipas | 4 |
Casper Ruud | 5 |
Andrey Rublev | 6 |
Felix Auger-Aliassime | 7 |
Hubert Hurkacz | 8 |
Country | Where to watch |
Australia | beIN Sports |
Canada | TSN/Sportsnet/TVA Sports |
India | Voot/Sports18 |
UK | Amazon Prime Video |
US | Tennis Channel |