Reilly Opelka broke a loss of five games on Sunday that on the Cincinnati open to Alex de Minaur loss, where he made up the Australian 7-6 (6), 6-4 to reach the third round in Ohio.
The large service American had lost his five earlier Lexus ATP Head2Head meetings against the Minaur and tried to prevent him from fell to the same opponent six times. In hot circumstances, the 27-year-old did exactly that, taking large cutbacks at the ball on return and saving all seven breakpoints he had confronted to record his ninth top 10 victory after an hour and 41 minutes.
World No. 8 The Minaur arrived in Cincinnati and this season had achieved a tour of leading 24 hard winnings, emphasized by his recent title Triumph in Washington. However, he was unable to convert his chances against Opelka, who on return at 5/5 hit a huge forehand winner in the first set of Tie-Break on the way to claiming the opener.
Opelka is nine places higher to No. 64 in the PIF ATP Live ranking and will then meet Francisco Comesana after the Argentinian on Sunday when 29th seed Luciano Darderi retired 4-6, 1-3.
In the past, Opelka has produced some of its best tennis on the North -American hard courts and reached the final at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Toronto in 2021 and the fourth round on the US Open in the same year. He squeezed 38 winners to the six of the Minaur, according to Infosys ATP statistics.
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