subscribe our channel to get daily Entertainment News pick of the day yui leeka versus Francis tiao Cincinnati TFO is producing his best tennis of the season and he now faces a competitor who's played just two matches since May don't look now but Francis tiao is beginning to find his form after a trying start to the 2024 season filled with losses to clowns tifo has won eight of his last 12 matches the most recent was arguably the most impressive of them all as tifo earned a 6-3 6-2 win over a red hot Lorenzo musetti between that a 6 to4 7-6 three win over Andre rubloff in DC and a five set loss to eventual Champion Carlos alarz in Wimbledon tifo is looking the part of a top 10 player again with that in mind I'm rolling with the American to beat yui leeka in the round of 16 at the Cincinnati open leeka is coming off a really big win over denil Medvedev so people are going to quickly assume that the 22-year-old is back to his early season form but how much credit does leeka really deserve for that Victory Medvedev has now lost each of his last three matches and he just hasn't looked sharp in recent months leeka really just had to put balls in play and allow Medvedev to beat himself and the Czech eventually got his opportunities to steal that win with this marking Le hea's first appearance since sustaining a back injury in Madrid it's not fair to expect him to produce top level tennis leeka is still going to have his moments where his serve is going to look rather untouchable but he only made 56.1% of his first serves against navon and 62.7% of them against Medvedev both of those marks are below his season long number of 63.9% and if leeka isn't serving as well as he does on a normal day he's going to have a hard time winning this match tfo's ability to hit his spots on his serve and also come fin points at the net is going to make it difficult on leeka to find success as a returner and longer rallies should favor tifo right now as the American is really feeling it and leeka still hasn't played a lot of matches it just feels like this is a really good spot to back tifo who loves the North American Summer hardcore portion of the Season as much as anyone