U.S. has two males’s tennis gamers in high 10 after Tiafoe beats Struff for first grass title

STUTTGART, Germany — There might be two American males’s tennis gamers ranked within the high 10 for the primary time in additional than a decade after Hyattsville’s Frances Tiafoe beat Jan-Lennard Struff on Sunday to win the Stuttgart Open for his first grass-court title.

Tiafoe gained 4-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (8) after saving a match level within the deciding tiebreaker and can transfer as much as a career-high rating of tenth on Monday, up from twelfth.

Along with Taylor Fritz in eighth, the U.S. has two males within the high 10 for the primary time since Mardy Fish and John Isner had been ninth and tenth in May 2012, the ATP tour stated.

Tiafoe did not convert his first match level at 6-5 within the decisive tiebreaker when he hit into the online after the longest rally of the match. Struff then had a match level of his personal at 7-6, which Tiafoe saved with a backhand.

A miscued return price Tiafoe his second match level earlier than a busy end on his third when he hit a smash just for Struff to in some way return it, earlier than Tiafoe completed off the win with an instinctive volley on the internet.

“I got super lucky there on match point. I still don’t know how I hauled it over the net but I’ll take it,” Tiafoe stated.

Tiafoe gained the ultimate regardless of not having a single break of serve in opposition to Struff, who hit 28 aces.

Tiafoe’s match has been full of tiebreakers — six of the ten units he performed in Stuttgart completed that method — and he saved six set factors in one other tiebreaker in his semifinal win over Marton Fucsovics.