Popyrin’s US Open run comes to an end

American Frances Tiafoe, the No 20 seed, moved into the last eight of the US Open by beating Australian Alexei Popyrin, the No 28 seed, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-3 in New York on Sunday night.

Tiafoe, ranked No 20, will play Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 9 seed, next.

Ahead of his victory, the American won against Aleksandar Kovacevic (6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5), Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko (6-4, 6-1, 1-0 ret.) and No 13 seed Ben Shelton (4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3).

Popyrin, ranked No 28, won against SoonWoo Kwon (7-5, 6-2, 6-3), Spaniard Pedro Martinez Portero (6-2, 6-4, 6-0) and Serb Novak Djokovic, the second seed (6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4) earlier in the tournament.

New York (Grand Slam), other last 16 results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 75.000.000, most recent results first):

• Jannik Sinner vs. Tommy Paul
• Alex De Minaur vs. Jordan Thompson
• Nuno Borges vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Jack Draper vs. Tomas Machac
• Alexander Zverev (4) beat Brandon Nakashima: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2
• Taylor Fritz (12) beat Casper Ruud (8): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
• Grigor Dimitrov beat Andrey Rublev (6): 6-3, 7-6 (3), 1-6, 3-6, 6-3