{"id":255152,"date":"2025-11-10T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255152\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:14:07","slug":"atp-finals-2025-taylor-fritz-beats-lorenzo-musetti-before-jannik-sinner-faces-felix-auger-aliassime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255152\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Finals 2025: Taylor Fritz beats Lorenzo Musetti before Jannik Sinner faces Felix Auger-Aliassime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor Fritz shone on serve to register his first victory over Lorenzo Musetti in three years and begin his ATP Finals campaign in style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American world number six Fritz beat the Italian 6-3 6-4 in front of a boisterous Turin crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fritz, runner-up to Jannik Sinner last year, dropped just three points on serve in the second set &#8211; and two of those were in the final game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ninth seed Musetti only had his place at the season-ending event confirmed on Sunday, when Novak Djokovic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cp3xll6er5ro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdrew after beating him<\/a> in the Athens Open final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had four early break opportunities against Fritz but could not take them before fatigue set in, with seven of his nine service games going to deuce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was a little shaky at the start and I was letting him dictate a little too much,&#8221; Fritz, 28, told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a bit nervy for me, which is expected. I felt I was able to loosen up and I just started playing a lot better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz shone on serve to register his first victory over Lorenzo Musetti in three years and begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255152","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=255152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}