Shelton Outlasts Nakashima in Epic; Fritz Beats Diallo Again

The blockbuster rematch of the Wimbledon round-two epic will led the night session on Friday, followed by an intriguing all-American clash. The day session also featured a pair of seeds who both made Masters 1000 finals on hard court last summer.

CENTRE COURT - Starts at 12:30 PM

• [6] Andrey Rublev d [28] Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
  • Rublev locked in after being broken to drop the first set. He pounced early in each of the next two sets to grab quick leads. In the second, a break for 2-1 was enough as he never faced a break point in the set. Sonego managed to fight back after dropping serve in the opening game and falling behind 2-0 in the decider, but Rublev immediately broke back to reestablish his lead. He broke again in the final game.
• [7] Frances Tiafoe (USA) d. Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
  • Vukic could only play with fire for so long. The Aussie did a good job fighting back, saving four break points in the second set as he clung to a break in the opening game. In the decider, he had to save another early break point to keep Tiafoe at bay, but the American kept coming. Finally in the eighth game, the American broke through just in time to set himself up to serve out the match.

Not Before 7:00 PM

• [2] Taylor Fritz (USA) d. [27] Gabriel Diallo (CAN) 6-4, 6-2
  • Fritz broke to start the match and never really gave Diallo a chance to get back in it. The American was squeaky clean throughout, seemingly finding a way to come out on top on every big point. Once he broke to go up 3-1, the result began to feel inevitable and he added a second break late before serving out the match.
• [4] Ben Shelton (USA) d. [25] Brandon Nakashima (USA) 6-7(8), 6-2, 7-6(5)
  • In what was easily the match of the tournament so far, Shelton staged multiple comebacks to edge his countryman Nakashima. Barely anything went against serve in the opening frame, with Nakashima getting his second minibreak of the breaker on the final point. Shelton turned things around quickly in the second, racing out to a 3-0 and then breaking again to finish it. Nakashima then seemed to flip the momentum in the opening game of the third with an early break, only for Shelton to respond soon after to level at 2-2. At 4-5 on Nakashima's serve, Shelton had two match points but two nervy errors allowed his countryman to hold. The No. 4 seed raced out to an early lead in the tiebreak and had three more match points at 6-3. Nakashima saved the first two but on the the third, the fifth overall, Shelton blasted his 19th ace to finally finish off the win. 

MOTOROLA RAZR GRANDSTAND COURT - start at 11:00 AM

• [20] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) d. [12] Jakub Mensik (CZE) 6-2, 6-4
  • The Spaniard was hyper-efficient, converting all four of his break-point opportunities, including an early break in both sets. 

Not Before 12:30 PM

• [19] Jiri Lehecka (CZE) d. [15] Arthur Fils (FRA) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
  • The servers largely dominated this one, with just a single break in each set. After dropping his own serve, and the set as a consequence, in the fourth game of the first set, Lehecka did not even face another break point the rest of the way.

Not Before 3:00 PM

• [6] Joe Salisbury (GBR) / Neal Skupski (GBR) d. Marcelo Melo (BRA) / Alexander Zverev (GER) 6-3, 6-4
  • Salisbury and Skupski saved the first break point of the match in the third game but that was the only look they gave their opponents all day. The Brits broke in the very next game and never faced another break point in the match.

Not Before 5:00 PM

• [13] Flavio Cobolli (ITA) d. Fabian Marozsan (HUN) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
  • Cobolli near got out of it in two sets when he had a break point at 4-4 in the second, but failed to convert and ended up getting broken to send the match to a decider. But the Italian rallied and broke three times in the third set to advance. 

COURT 1 - start at 12:30 PM

• [4] Kevin Krawietz (GER) / Tim Puetz (GER) d. Pedro Martinez (ESP) / Casper Ruud (NOR) 6-2, 6-3
  • The German duo finished both sets strong, especially the second where they rallied from a break down and won the last five games in a row.
• Guido Andreozzi (ARG) / Sander Arends (NED) d. [WC] Nicolas Arseneault (CAN) / Justin Boulais (CAN) 6-0, 6-3
  • The young Canadians overcame a nightmare start to get a break early in the second set, but they could not maintain the lead, nor could they reclaim it with a few break points midway through the set. They were broken to go down 3-5 and could not recover.

Not before 5:00 pm

• Andre Goransson (SWE) / Sem Verbeek (NED) d. Karen Khachanov / Andrey Rublev 7-5, 6-2
  • The match was tight through ten games but once Goransson and Verbeek solved their opponent's serve, they cruised, breaking in four of Khachanov and Rublev's last five service games. 

COURT 4 - Start at 12:30 PM

• [8] Hugo Nys (MON) / Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d. Nuno Borges (POR) / Tomas Machac (CZE) 6-2, 6-4
  • Nys and Roger-Vasselin had a good read on their opponent's serve, jumping out to double-break leads in both sets and hanging on.
• Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) / Andres Molteni (ARG) d. [5] Simone Bolelli (ITA) / Andrea Vavassori (ITA) 7-6(5), 7-5
  • What an escape act from Gonzalez and Molteni. In the first set, they trailed 3-5, faced a set point on their own serve at 5-6, and then trailed 2-5 in the tiebreak, only to win the last five points in a row to steal it. They were down a break again in the second only to level and eventually break for the match.

Not before 5:30 pm

• [3] Harri Heliovaara (FIN) / Henry Patten (GBR) d. Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) / Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 10-3
  • A three-tiebreak affair, the third seed responded in emphatic fashion after dropping an early minibreak, winning eight straight points from 1-2 down to take a stranglehold on the match.

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