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·Masters·HardFrances Tiafoe defeated Marin Cilic 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 — Canadian Open 2026 R64.
Frances Tiafoe and Marin Cilic: Frances Tiafoe leads 1–0 across 1 recorded meeting.
The break-point ledger decided it. Frances Tiafoe cashed 4 of 7 chances to Marin Cilic's 1 of 6, every one of them arriving after an opening set in which the No. 15 seed never earned a look. Set two turned the match. Tiafoe won every first-serve point he played in that set and broke in game 5 for 3-2, then game 7 for 5-2, while Cilic's unforced errors climbed from 11 in the opener to 18, then 25. The ATP No. 86 out-hit him 27 winners to 23 yet lost the points count 98-80. Cilic saved one match point, but Tiafoe converted the next, 2 hours, 15 minutes in, closing out a matchup with no prior meetings on record.