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<\/p>\n ATP Tour
\n Fritz takes important step towards Turin with opening win in Paris<\/p>\n
American is chasing one of four remaining places at the Nitto ATP Finals<\/p>\n
October 28, 2025<\/p>\n
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Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Taylor Fritz gets off to a winning start Tuesday at the Rolex Paris Masters.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Taylor Fritz<\/a> stayed ahead of the chasing pack of Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> contenders at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> Tuesday with a 7-6(4), 6-2 win over Australian Aleksandar Vukic<\/a>.<\/p>\n With fellow Turin contenders Ben Shelton<\/a>, Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> and Daniil Medvedev<\/a> also all claiming wins Tuesday, Fritz ensured that he remained next in line to qualify at fifth in the PIF ATP Live Race to Turin.<\/p>\n The fourth-seeded American, who fell to Jannik Sinner<\/a> in the title match of the season finale last year, claimed his 52nd win of the season after firing 12 aces and clubbing 10 forehand winners.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a tough match,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cI thought that he served really well in the first set. I looked at the percentage after the set. I was curious. It was 72 per cent. But that was after the tie-break. He missed, I think, three first serves in the tie-break or so up until that. <\/p>\n \u201cHe was probably serving 80 per cent first serves, hitting spots on it. He’s got a great first serve. So, I did well to just keep holding serve and play a good tie-break, and then I found the breaks in the second set.”<\/p>\n The 2024 US Open<\/a> finalist awaits the winner of 13th seed Alexander Bublik<\/a> and Frenchman Corentin Moutet<\/a> in the third round.<\/p>\n \n\u201cEither way, it’s gonna be a very tricky match,” Fritz said. “Both of them do a lot of shots that make you uncomfortable, I’d say, especially Moutet, but Bublik as well, the drop shots, both of them. It’s a lot of craziness going on. So, I have to be very mentally ready for that match.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Fritz takes important step towards Turin with opening win in Paris American is chasing one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-231066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}