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He lost the 2024 Cincinnati final to Jannik Sinner, and Saturday gives him a second shot at the title.[^6] Fils has not. The read here is that Tiafoe carries the experience edge in a final where his opponent is feeling his way into new territory for the first time.\n\nOn the women's side, Jessica Pegula ended defending champion Iga Swiatek's run with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 victory to reach the final.[^2] She will face compatriot Coco Gauff there, making it an all-American decider.[^7]\n\nPegula's win over Swiatek is the sharper result of the two semifinals. 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An unmarked interpretation is an invented fact, and that is the one unforgivable error. Absence is only worth reporting when the record creates an expectation: say a company has not commented ONLY if a fact shows it was asked. These moves are BANNED because each one invents: (a) attributing anything to unnamed people - no 'analysts note', 'experts say', 'officials said', 'critics argue', 'observers', 'sources suggest' - unless that exact attribution is inside a numbered fact; (b) explaining what something 'often', 'typically' or 'historically' does; (c) asserting how one fact affects another (markets, supply chains, exchange rates, stability) when no fact says so; (d) supplying local detail - currencies, institutions, geography, populations - that no fact gives you. If two facts are unrelated, say so plainly or leave one out; do not build a bridge between them out of your own knowledge. 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