Novak Djokovic’s quest for a 25th Grand Slam title and fifth US Open championship continued on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
Djokovic defeated Taylor Fritz with a 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 win in the quarterfinal round at Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n
As Fritz struggled with unforced errors early, Djokovic took a 5-3 lead to open the first set. Fritz failed to convert five break points in the ensuing game, which included a 25-shot rally. Djokovic went on to win the first set. <\/p>\n
Djokovic jumped out to a 5-3 lead in the second set, although Fritz recorded his first break of the match and went on to tie the score 5-5. The excitement was short-lived, as his serve was broken in the very next game before Djokovic cruised to a 7-5 victory. <\/p>\n
Fritz fought back to take the third set with multiple breaks, drawing Djokovic into long service games. <\/p>\n
Both players held serve for the first nine games of the fourth set, although Djokovic finally broke Fritz with a 5-4 lead to emerge victorious in the match. <\/p>\n
Fritz struggled to capitalize on his opportunities throughout the match, converting just two of 13 break point chances.<\/p>\n
Djokovic continued to excel in the individual matchup with Fritz, now boasting a flawless 11-0 head-to-head record against the American throughout his career.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s win continued an impressive 2025 US Open run for the 38-year-old, as he dropped just two sets in his first four matches. He battled through a neck injury<\/a> as well as a blister<\/a> on his right toe during the tournament. <\/p>\n Now, Djokovic will be moving on to face Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic’s quest for a 25th Grand Slam title and fifth US Open championship continued on Tuesday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-114798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}