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Three of the four Round of 16 matches in Stuttgart went the distance, and the breaks of serve were scarce enough to make the tiebreak the deciding currency. Taylor Fritz needed two of them to get past qualifier Martin Landaluce, dropping the opening tiebreak before closing it out 6-7(4), 7-5, 7-6(3). Jiri Lehecka followed the same script against James Duckworth, losing a first-set tiebreak that reached 10-8 before taking the next two, the decider on a 7-3 breaker.
The day's upset came from Sho Shimabukuro, who erased a one-set deficit to bounce Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 and end the returning Australian's Stuttgart run. Frances Tiafoe was the only straight-sets winner, holding off Rinky Hijikata 6-4, 6-4 to book a quarterfinal spot.
The Stuttgart serving festival rolled on, but two of the day's three Round of 16 winners had to grind for it. Mattia Bellucci was the lone seed-watcher's surprise, recovering from a second-set tiebreak loss to oust home hope Yannick Hanfmann 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-2 — ending the run Yannick Hanfmann carried over from his Day 2 tiebreak escape. Alexander Bublik needed three as well, dropping the middle set to Jan-Lennard Struff before closing 6-2 in an all-business decider against the German wild card.
The cleanest exit belonged to Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, who took the opener in a lopsided 7-1 tiebreak and pulled away 6-2 past Gauthier Onclin. On a surface this kind to big servers, the Frenchman's hold-and-pounce template looks the most portable into the quarterfinals.
The Stuttgart grass turned into a serving bunker on Day 2, and nobody benefited more than home favorite Yannick Hanfmann, who edged Aleksandar Kovacevic in back-to-back tiebreaks without facing a single break of serve — 22 aces, four break points saved out of four, and not one converted at the other end across 24 games. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard navigated a similar coin-flip, outlasting Roman Safiullin in a third-set tiebreak after dropping the second.
Nick Kyrgios was the marquee name, dispatching Corentin Moutet 6-3, 6-4 in a straight-sets win that needed no tiebreak — a rarity on the day. Frances Tiafoe survived the longest grind, dropping the second set before getting past Daniel Altmaier in three. Marcos Giron ousted Roberto Bautista Agut to round out a Round of 32 short on upsets but heavy on serve.