It’s about time these two faced off. The 27-year-old American and the 20-year-old Frenchman are pretty far apart in age, but they couldn’t be closer in the rankings right now: Tiafoe is 17th, Fils is 18th.

Despite already cracking the Top 20, Fils so far hasn’t had the breakout 2025 that seemed to be in the cards for him. He lost early in Melbourne, Rotterdam, and Dubai. But he began to round into form in Indian Wells, where he reached the quarterfinals and lost a thriller to Daniil Medvedev, 9-7 in a third-set tiebreaker.