{"id":24951,"date":"2025-07-26T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24951\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:07:09","slug":"tennis-atp-citi-open-2025-davidovich-fokina-beats-fritz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24951\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, ATP \u2013 Citi Open 2025: Davidovich Fokina beats Fritz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Citi Open<\/a> final four is set as Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a>, the No. 12 seed, reached the semifinals by edging out American Taylor Fritz<\/a>, the top seed, 7-6(3), 3-6, 7-5<\/a> at 1:45 a.m. at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Davidovich Fokina, ranked No. 26, will next face No. 4 seed Ben Shelton, who previously eliminated Frances Tiafoe<\/a> in a long day marked by a lightning interruption during the incredible battle between Daniil Medvedev and Corentin Moutet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the Spaniard\u2019s fifth semifinal appearance of the year. He had beaten American Learner Tien (6-2, 6-2) and Jaume Munar (6-4, 6-2) earlier in the tournament. The victory against Fritz marked Davidovich Fokina\u2019s 11th career win against a Top 10 player; he had already defeated Fritz, then ranked No. 4, to reach the Delray Beach final in February.<\/p>\n

Fritz\u2019s long run since June<\/p>\n

Earlier in the tournament, Fritz, ranked No. 4, had victories over Italian Matteo Arnaldi (6-3, 6-4) and Australian Aleksandar Vukic (6-3, 6-2). The American appeared visibly exhausted at the end of the third set, losing five games in a row after leading 5-2, 30-30 on hos serve, ultimately losing 5-7.<\/p>\n

Fritz, who is set to defend his points from the 2024 US Open final this summer, is on a 15-3 run since early June, which includes titles in Stuttgart and Eastbourne and a run to the Wimbledon semifinals.<\/p>\n

Washington ATP 500, other last eight results (William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, hard, USD 2.396.115, most recent results first):<\/p>\n

Ben Shelton beat Frances Tiafoe (6): 7-6 (2), 6-4<\/p>\n


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Alex De Minaur (7) beat Brandon Nakashima (14): 6-4, 6-4<\/p>\n

Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Daniil Medvedev (8): 1-6, 6-4, 6-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Citi Open final four is set as Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No. 12 seed, reached the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-24951","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\/24951","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=24951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}