Toronto Masters: De Minaur moves into last eight defeating Tiafoe

Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 9 seed, edged out American Frances Tiafoe, the No 7 seed, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 to move into the last 8 of the Toronto Masters at the Aviva Centre on Sunday.

De Minaur, ranked No 13, will face the winner of the match between Italian Flavio Cobolli, the No 13 seed, and American Ben Shelton, the No 4 seed, next.

The match shifted at 4-4 in the third set, with the score at deuce on Tiafoe’s serve. De Minaur produced incredible defense to deny Tiafoe a deserved point. ADM eventually broke Tiafoe in this game and then held serve in the following game.

De Minaur is still undefeated on the summer American swing after his win at Washington. Earlier in the tournament, the Australian benefited from the forfeit of Christopher O’Connell and won against Argentinian Francisco Comesana (6-4, 6-2). He’s on a seven match winning streak.

He is also the only player to reach round of 16 at all 6 ATP Masters 1000 events this year (2-4
record in R16).

Tiafoe is still seeking his first Top 10 win of the season. He hasn’t defeated any since beating No. 5 Medvedev at Laver Cup in September 2024 (0-4 since).

Toronto Masters 1000, other last 16 results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 9.193.540, most recent results first):

• Jiri Lehecka vs. Taylor Fritz : Sunday
• Flavio Cobolli vs. Ben Shelton: Sunday
• Andrey Rublev vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: Sunday
• Alexander Zverev (1) beat Francisco Cerundolo (14): 6-4, 1-0 ret.
• Alexei Popyrin (18) beat Holger Rune (5): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Karen Khachanov (11) beat Casper Ruud (8): 6-4, 7-5
• Alex Michelsen (26) beat Learner Tien: 6-3, 6-3