British hopes never got past the first round at the Cincinnati Masters as a couple of seeds fell and the title favourite, the top seeded Carlos Alcaraz wobbled somewhat before securing his second round place.
“I had never played him and the start-stop was not easy, It was not easy to wait for the rain. Carlos Alcaraz
First Andy Murray withdrew citing the abdominal injury which forced him out of playing his third-round match last week in Toronto and he was replaced by Germanys Daniel Altmaier to play Keren Khachanov who later, also withdrew still nursing a groin injury picked up during the French Open. His replacement was Alexei Popyrin of Australia.
On court both Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans suffered losses to Gael Monfils and Lorenzo Musetti respectively in what proved to be tricky first round matches for the top two Brits.
French favourite Gael Monfils, a quarter finalist last week…