How Cerundolo & Tiafoe Won Their Biggest-Ever Titles | Monday Match Analysis
6/22/202640 min
On Monday Match Analysis, Gill Gross unpacks Francisco Cerundolo’s first ATP 500 title at the Queen’s Club after he beat Tommy Paul in three tight sets. Then, Frances Tiafoe joined the party with his biggest trophy, beating Taylor Fritz to take the title in Halle.
0:00 Intro
1:30 Grass Cerundolo
7:50 Nico Massu
11:15 Cerundolo def. Paul Analysis
28:23 Tiafoe def. Fritz Halle
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsGil Gross· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome everyone to Monday Match Analysis. I'm Gil Gross. A couple of first-time 500 title winners this week. It is Francisco Cerundolo at the Queen's Club beating Tommy Paul in a three-set final, his biggest career trophy, and the same can be said for Frances Tiafoe in Halle who pulls off his first win over Taylor Fritz since 2016, and I can't wait to dissect both of those finals on this week's Monday Match Analysis. This is one of my favorite weeks of the year on the ATP calendar. I love these two grass court 500s. Uh, just a, a really great format, and the, the urgency to get ready for Wimbledon is always high, so the fields are great. I love this week. That said, to paint grass court tennis with a broad brush after watching these two tournaments side by side would be absolutely crazy. To say that Halle and Queens belong in the same category of conditions, and to just say, "Oh, it's grass court tennis. Tiafoe won on grass, Cerundolo won on grass, same thing," it's, it's so not the case. These, these tournaments play so differently. Uh, to, to watch it throughout the week was, was staggering. Not that this is a completely new thing, but it just, [chuckles] it just felt very glaring this week. So, uh, let's start with Queens, and let's talk about Francisco Cerundolo,