LONDON \u2014 A well-dressed Taylor Fritz impressed again at\u00a0Wimbledon\u00a0on Thursday, beating compatriot Patrick Kypson 6-2, 6-2, 7-5 to reach the third round as\u00a0Princess Kate visited\u00a0the All England Club.<\/p>\n
Fritz’s white blazer and NBA-style warmup pants for his walk-on at No. 2 Court drew attention but his play wasn’t bad either \u2014 he fired 19 aces and avoided getting pushed into a fourth set.<\/p>\n
The sixth-seeded American, a semi-finalist last year, emphatically pumped his right fist when he broke Kypson to convert his fourth match point.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m really happy that I was able to just get the break there, avoid going to a tiebreaker, avoid going to a fourth, just get it done in three,\u201d Fritz said in an on-court interview.<\/p>\n
Fritz also won his opener in straight sets and had worn a similar outfit with tear-away warmup pants.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m a bit more low-key so it’s definitely something different for me walking out with the whole fit,\u201d the 28-year-old Californian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first round I actually kind of struggled getting the thing off. I saw a video of Frances (Tiafoe) the other day just going full rip-off,\u201d Fritz added. \u201cI tried to copy him today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fifth-seeded Alex de Minaur also advanced in straight sets, beating Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 A well-dressed Taylor Fritz impressed again at\u00a0Wimbledon\u00a0on Thursday, beating compatriot Patrick Kypson 6-2, 6-2, 7-5 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-775759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775759","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=775759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}