British duo Dan Evans and Jack Draper were both been knocked out of the Paris Masters in the second round.
Despite some incredibly close games in the second set, Draper was beaten 6-3 7-5 by world number 21 Frances Tiafoe in an hour and 24 minutes.
Tiafoe started well in the opening set, but Draper hit two aces in the fourth game to draw level at 2-2.
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🇺🇸 @FTiafoe reaches the third round in Paris for the first time, defeating Draper 6-3, 7-5!@RolexPMasters | #RolexParisMasters pic.twitter.com/Dafoo9SUkw
— ATP Tour (@atptour) November 2, 2022
Although the American was threatening to pull away, Draper put up a fight in the eighth game, which lasted over 10 minutes, before Tiafoe eventually broke and went on to take the first set.
World number 45 Draper began the second set well, firing down four aces across the first three games, but Tiafoe kept pace with his opponent.
With the scores level at 5-5, the match looked to be heading towards a tie-break, but Tiafoe got the edge on Draper to break in the 11th game before going on to win the second set 7-5.
Tiafoe will now either face Alex de Minaur or Daniil Medvedev in round three.
Evans was also knocked out of the tournament as he fell to a 6-3 6-4 defeat to fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Dan Evans loses out to No.5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 in Paris#BackTheBrits 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/6JhDTeYbrQ
— LTA (@the_LTA) November 2, 2022
The world number five displayed his dominance, smashing three aces in the third game to go 3-0 up, before Evans rallied to bring the score to 5-3.
The Greek showed his strength, however, capitalising on a double fault from the the world number 27 in the ninth game to take the first set.
Tsitsipas broke in the first game of the second set, but faced a difficult challenge against Evans, who came back to trail 5-4.
However, Tsitsipas was able to hold on and saw the match out with an ace in the 10th game to progress to round three, where he will face either Corentin Moutet or British world number 13 Cameron Norrie.
How good is this going to be?! 🔥 #NittoATPFinals pic.twitter.com/Dp3Z8nUn5G
— ATP Tour (@atptour) November 2, 2022
Rafael Nadal also suffered a second-round exit. The second seed was beaten 3-6 7-6 (4) 6-1 by world number 31 Tommy Paul.
Meanwhile, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Andrey Rublev completed the singles field for the 2022 Nitto ATP Finals which is due to be played next week.
The pair will join Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Casper Ruud, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev in the season finale.
If the champion at this year’s tournament lifts the trophy without losing a single match, he will earn more than 4.7million US dollars (£4.1m) – which is set to be the largest prize money for an individual player in the history of tennis.
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