{"id":393862,"date":"2026-01-05T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393862\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:39:11","slug":"taylor-fritz-battles-through-injury-to-win-united-cup-clash-vs-jaume-munar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393862\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz battles through injury to win United Cup clash vs Jaume Munar"},"content":{"rendered":"

American star Taylor Fritz has survived a gruelling United Cup<\/a> clash that lasted more than three hours, battling through injury to defeat Spain’s Jaume Munar.<\/p>\n

The world No.9 found himself in deep waters on many occasions as he looked to keep the USA’s hopes alive after Coco Gauff lost earlier on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fritz won the first set in a tiebreak before dropping the second and things looked like they were going the wrong way in the third and final set.<\/p>\n

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The 28-year-old appeared to land awkwardly and walked straight over to his team’s bench, signalling towards his shoe and taking it off to reveal a bloodied foot.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Fritz leaves the court with a foot injury.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

However, after the medical timeout, Fritz rallied and took the third-set tiebreak to claim a 7-6(4), 3-6, 7-6(6) win and send the USA-Spain battle to a mixed doubles decider.<\/p>\n

“Look what it means to Taylor Fritz,” commentator Brenton Speed said on Nine.<\/p>\n

“Three hours and 13 minutes of really hard work to keep the United States alive.”<\/p>\n

The Aussie tennis summer kicks off with the 2026 United Cup from Friday, January 2. Watch it live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nine host Nick McArdle heaped praise on the 2024 US Open finalist.<\/p>\n

“That is pure guts \u2026 he survived to keep this one alive,” McArdle said post-match.<\/p>\n

Fritz didn’t feature in the mixed doubles clash, with Christian Harrison teaming up with Gauff against the tandem of Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers and Inigo Cervantes.<\/p>\n

USA cruised to a 7-6(5), 6-0 straight-sets win as Gauff made up for her earlier defeat as the reigning United Cup champions proved too strong for their Spanish rivals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American star Taylor Fritz has survived a gruelling United Cup clash that lasted more than three hours, battling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-393862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393862","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=393862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}