Jeffrey John Wolf vs James Duckworth — R128 — Cincinnati Open

Serve placement separated them, with Duckworth landing 67 percent of first serves to Wolf's 45 percent and winning 84 percent of those points to the qualifier's 62. Back-to-back breaks, in game 11 for 6-5 and again in game 12, banked the opener; Wolf broke back in game 10 of the second for 5-5, but the Australian took the tiebreak to finish in 1h 48m. For a 34-year-old whose hard-court season had read 3-9 coming in, it is a useful win over a man he had no prior meetings with on record.