{"id":390123,"date":"2026-01-04T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:59:09","slug":"health-is-the-big-issue-for-fritz-in-26-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390123\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Is The Big Issue for Fritz in \u201926 \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Fritz<\/a> has become a Grand Slam finalist and cracked the Top 5 in the last two seasons, proving that he is America\u2019s top dog and a threat to go deep in every tournament he plays.<\/p>\n

But the wear and tear of the last three seasons \u2013 which included 229 matches, an average of more than 76 a season \u2013 has taken a toll on the Southern Californian.<\/p>\n

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So much, in fact, that Fritz now says the biggest key to unlocking future success on tour will be staying health. No small feat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think over the last four years I feel like I\u2019ve continued to improve a lot as a player and just a much better tennis player,\u201d he told reporters in Perth, where he is competing in United Cup. \u201cI think the one thing that I\u2019ve been noticing now is the body just has to be able to keep up with it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of demand kind of playing so many matches that you do when you are a higher-ranked player. There\u2019s no question to me that I\u2019m going to keep improving as a player. I think the biggest thing ahead of me is I have to stay healthy, and my body has to feel strong like it did my first year in the top 10 in order for me to keep pushing it to the demands of the level of tennis that needs to, I guess, be played to keep up with the very top guys.<\/p>\n

After his first match, a three-set loss to Argentina\u2019s Sebastian Baez, Fritz admitted that most of his off-season was spent trying to get his knee to peak fitness. That work, however, still isn\u2019t completely done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent the majority \u2014 pretty much the entirety of the off-season trying to rehab my knee tendinopathy, but that\u2019s a thing that takes months and months to get better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fritz also has a lot of rust to knock off after an off-season without much competitive tennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t get to play a lot of points because I\u2019m trying to not push it too hard,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it\u2019s just going to be a struggle of trying to get the reps in and get the points and matches in to start feeling like I\u2019m comfortable while juggling that while still managing my knee pain because I\u2019m going to try to play through and keep doing the rehab while traveling and getting better, but if that doesn\u2019t work in a couple of months, then I am just going to have to full stop and fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz has become a Grand Slam finalist and cracked the Top 5 in the last two seasons,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-390123","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\/390123","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=390123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}