Cincinnati Open 2026

The Cincinnati Open ate its top seeds and spat out Arthur Fils

The seeding list came out on time and was then comprehensively ignored. Arthur Fils won the men's title from the 21st seed, beating Frances Tiafoe 6-3 1-6 6-0; Coco Gauff won the women's from the fourth, beating Jessica Pegula 6-2 6-4. The three sections below cover the wreckage they walked through. Here is what didn't fit in them. Eleven matches ended in a retirement or a walkover, one of them a women's quarter-final that Iga Świątek won in thirty-one minutes. Brandon Nakashima, the 27th…