Cincinnati crowns the Godó champion, new king of the Masters 1000 ATP
He went through a bad time in the second half of 2025, after suffering a delicate back injury at Roland Garros. He forced too much, he missed half the season and the Australian Open this season. A hard toll for a young tennis player who was breaking into the world top-10. But quality rules again.
Arthur Fils is once again closer than ever to the best. He will rise from 21st to 11th place in the ATP ranking, his best position, which he snatches from the Spaniard Rafa Jodarnow thirteenth, also behind the loser of the day, the American Frances Tiafoe.
The Masters 1000 ATP category has a new champion, like the Cincinnati tournament. Arthur Fils defeated a Tiafoe who played the third set physically affected, with energy drained, 6-3, 1-6 and 6-0 in 1h.28′.
The second Frenchman to conquer Cincinnati, after Guy Forget in 1991, the fifth player from his country to triumph in the M1000, created in 1990. The other three are Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Cédric Pioline and Sébastien Grosjean. Tiafoe He was left without a prize in this event for the second final, he already lost the 2024 final against the Italian Jannik Sinner.
It is another consecration of the powerful Fils, who already hit the table by triumphing in the last Conde de Godó Trophy. He hadn’t done more on the tour because he had always clashed against Rafa Jódar, in the first round in Washington and in the quarterfinals in Montreal.
Fils, a tennis player to watch in the immediate US Open, which opens the individual draw in a week. The Frenchman already has his fifth professional crown, having won 22 of 29 matches on hard courts this season. A danger in Flushing Meadowswhere he will start as tenth seed.
It will arrive with a new trophy and a stub for $1,151,380, around 986,000 euros. Former pupil of the Spaniard Sergi Bruguera and his compatriot Sébastien Grosjean, it is now directed by two Croats, Ivan Cinkus, present in this triumph, and Goran Ivanisevic. Always with dad Fils, Jean-Philippe.
