Taylor Fritz: ‘I had a very solid rebound’<\/p>\n
Fritz opened 2025 as the World No. 4 after reaching his first Grand Slam final at the US Open last year, when he was swept by Sinner in straight sets.<\/p>\n
The North American said he was in tip-top form at the start of the season and went into the Australian Open feeling good.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the 27-year-old ran into an equally sharp Gael Monfils, who eliminated him in the third round. It was his fastest exit at a Slam since 2023.<\/p>\n
Following Melbourne, Fritz suffered an unspecified injury, which he ended up nursing until the grass season began, a decision he laments with hindsight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started out playing good tennis but I got injured after the Australian Open,\u201d Fritz recalled. \u201cAnd I think that was a big issue for me because I tried to play through it for a while and then ultimately, I kind of accepted that it’s not good for me to play through it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was developing bad habits to try to not have pain, and then when I took time off and came back, I felt like my level was pretty bad at the end of a clay season.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think since the grass season started to now, I’m really happy with everything. I had a very solid rebound, and I think that overall, I’m in a pretty good position for how bad I thought I was at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think now I’m pretty happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fritz will be looking to finish strong as the year winds down to the ATP Finals in Turin, where he was also denied by Sinner in last year\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
At some point, he will have to get past Sinner and Alcaraz to hit his target of winning a Grand Slam championship and becoming No. 1 in the world rankings.<\/p>\n
Last week, 27-year-old Fritz showed he can beat half of the Big Two. Now the question is whether he can do it under the high-powered microscope of a major.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me the first goal and the main goal is to win a Grand Slam and I think if I am able to win a Grand Slam, then that’s maybe something I can think about afterwards, is trying to become the World No. 1,\u201d the California native said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you just go down the rankings, the next people are myself and Sasha. I see Novak\u2019s there but we don’t know how much longer Novak’s going to really play over the next five years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it’s not going to be just Carlos and Sinner then yeah, there’s only right now a handful of people that you might be able to contest. And I’m working really hard to be one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz: ‘I had a very solid rebound’ Fritz opened 2025 as the World No. 4 after reaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-170306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}