Their all-American Sunday night final will be followed by a men\u2019s title clash between American Frances Tiafoe and Arthur Fils of France.<\/p>\n
Fils charged into his first Masters 1000 final with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over French Open runner-up Flavio Cobolli in a match delayed for 45 minutes by rain and lightning.<\/p>\n
Swiatek and Pegula then waited out another rain delay before their match, which was also briefly interrupted two games in.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrazy match today,\u201d Pegula said after needing nearly three hours to subdue Swiatek, who was coming off her first title of 2026 in Toronto last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of back and forth, a lot of breaks,\u201d she said. \u201cReally windy, kind of odd conditions. I felt like we were playing well and then not playing well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really tough to kind of get a gauge on the match.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair rode a rollercoaster of breaks and re-breaks before Pegula took a 5-4 lead in the final set, Swiatek saving three break points before double-faulting on a fourth.<\/p>\n
Pegula quickly closed it out, firing a service winner on match point.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just really happy with the way I was able to kind of handle just a lot that was going on today,\u201d the 31-year-old American said. \u201cI did a good job no matter what was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first five games of what evolved into an epic went against the server as Pegula and Swiatek struggled to adjust to the conditions.<\/p>\n
Swiatek blinked first as Pegula held at love for a 4-2 lead, but Swiatek won the next three games before Pegula broke again, finally taking the set when Swiatek smacked a volley into the net on set point.<\/p>\n
They had exchanged two breaks in the second when Swiatek broke in the final game to square the match.<\/p>\n
Tiafoe feeling \u2018damn good\u2019 on return to final<\/p>\n
Tiafoe, runner-up to Jannik Sinner in Cincinnati in 2024, returned to the final with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over fellow American Brandon Nakashima.<\/p>\n
Tiafoe saved three set points in the opening set, breaking Nakashima five times in all to earn the win in less than two hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels d*** good,\u201d Tiafoe said.<\/p>\n
The American predicted a \u201ch*** of a show\u201d against Fils, whose 68-minute win over seventh-seeded Cobolli made him the youngest French Masters finalist since a 20-year-old Richard Gasquet in Toronto two decades ago.<\/p>\n
Fils admitted he had been unsettled by the weather delay.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou come on court more nervous because it\u2019s a semi-final. The rain arrives, you wait and when you come back conditions are completely different,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was tough, but I\u2019m happy with how I dealt with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tiafoe saved three set points in the opening set, breaking Nakashima five times in all to earn the win in less than two hours [Dylan Buell\/Getty Images\/AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The women\u2019s all-American final will be followedby a men\u2019s title clash between Frances Tiafoe and Arthur Fils of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[185,54,113,28,970],"class_list":["post-55875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-coco-gauff","tag-coco-gauff","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-tennis","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}