{"id":276885,"date":"2025-11-11T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276885\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:47:11","slug":"fritz-fighting-with-tendinitis-that-affected-his-third-set-against-alcaraz-im-just-going-to-play-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276885\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritz fighting with tendinitis that affected his third set against Alcaraz: \u00ab I\u2019m just going to play through \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Fritz revealed that knee tendinitis has been a recurring issue throughout his 2025 season and that this pain played a role in his struggles against Carlos Alcaraz in the third set of their ATP Finals round-robin match on Tuesday (6-7, 7-5, 6-3<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The injury became problematic during matches only after the grass court season, with Fritz noting that it flares up especially when playing back-to-back matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had tendinitis all year long,\u201d he said. \u201cInitially, the pain was mostly felt after matches, but recently it has interfered during play. It was never an issue before, but since then I\u2019ve struggled to play back-to-back days without it flaring up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this, Fritz was clear that the injury was not an excuse for his loss to Alcaraz. \u201cI had my opportunities,\u201d the American said. \u201cMy opportunity to win that match was in the second set, and I didn\u2019t take it.\u201d He emphasized that his frustration came from missed chances to lead one set and one break at 7-6, 4-4, rather than from the pain itself.<\/p>\n

Fritz \u201creally struggling\u201d<\/p>\n

Fritz described how the tendinitis affected his movement, especially in the third set: \u201cI was really struggling to bend my back leg on my serve, step into backhands, load the leg for an open-stance forehand. My knee\u2019s completely cooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

The intense movements required during the match, particularly when returning serves, added strain. \u201cThe pushing off, the landing when I\u2019m returning, that puts a lot of force through it.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Addressing the difficulty of managing tendinitis within the tennis season, Fritz explained: \u201cYou need a certain amount of weeks to strengthen it where you\u2019re not pounding on it playing tennis. Unfortunately, that time period does not exist in the tennis season.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Playing through the pain<\/p>\n

Despite the challenge, he has decided to continue playing through the pain. \u201cWhy would you stop for four to six weeks when I can do this on the court? I\u2019m just going to play through.\u201d Fritz did not join the chorus of players complaining about the demanding ATP Tour schedule with nine mandatory Masters 1000 tournaments.<\/p>\n

His comments highlight the difficult balance between injury management and competing at the highest level in professional tennis. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate when you have to play two days back-to-back with tendinitis flaring,\u201d he noted, but remained focused on maximizing his chances. \u201cI had all I could ask for, I just didn\u2019t take it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz revealed that knee tendinitis has been a recurring issue throughout his 2025 season and that this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-276885","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\/276885","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=276885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}