Taylor Fritz has by no means received a serious – he was a finalist final 12 months on the US Open and the ATP Finals – and has just one victory within the Masters 1000, the 2022 Indian Wells title when he defeated Rafa Nadal within the remaining, however he has simply achieved a milestone for American tennis that legends akin to Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick couldn’t boast of.
The world No. 4 superior to the quarter-finals of the Canadian Masters 1000 after defeating Czech Jiri Lehecka 7-6(4), 6-7(5), 7-6(5), in a match wherein he needed to save 9 break factors. He’ll now face Russia’s Andrey Rublev, Alejandro Davidovich’s conqueror, for a spot within the semi-finals.
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Fritz, 27, made his Masters 1000 essential draw debut in 2016, but it surely was not till 2021 that he achieved his first notable outcome, reaching the semifinals at Indian Wells. Till then, he had by no means reached the quarterfinals and 4 years later he has achieved that aim within the 9 tournaments of the second tier of the ATP.
The one main match wherein he has not reached not less than the quarter-finals is Roland Garros, the place he has the final 16 in 2024 as his finest outcome. Even so, he has grow to be the primary non-European participant to achieve not less than the quarter-finals in all of the Masters 1000 tournaments.
Sampras, Agassi and Roddick, for instance, didn’t make it that far in Monte Carlo, and one other American tennis legend, Jim Courier, failed in Hamburg. We’re speaking about gamers with a a lot richer monitor report than Fritz, there isn’t any doubt about that, however that solely will increase his advantage.
Fritz has joined a choose group of ten lively gamers, all from the Outdated Continent. Amongst them, curiously, is Carlos Alcaraz however not Jannik Sinner, who solely has the Paris Masters left.
