Jul 23, 2025, 06:34 PM ET<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Taylor Fritz<\/a> got his North American hard-court season off to a strong start by hitting 11 aces and saving the only break point he faced in a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Aleksandar Vukic<\/a> at the DC Open on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Fritz is coming off a semifinal run on the grass of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n He will be trying to replicate last year’s strong showing in this portion of the season, when he reached his first Grand Slam final at the US Open.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n After getting a first-round bye, Fritz now will play in the third round against Matteo Arnaldi<\/a>, who eliminated No. 16 Lorenzo Sonego<\/a> 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\n Seeded men advancing included No. 7 Alex De Minaur<\/a>, No. 8 Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, No. 9 Flavio Cobolli<\/a>, and No. 11 Jiri Lehecka<\/a>.<\/p>\n No. 5 Andrey Rublev<\/a> was a 7-5, 6-2 loser against 19-year-old American Learner Tien<\/a>, and No. 10 Alexei Popyrin<\/a> was defeated by qualifier Wu Yibing<\/a> 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.<\/p>\n Tien has four wins over opponents ranked in the top 10 this season.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 23, 2025, 06:34 PM ET Top-seeded Taylor Fritz got his North American hard-court season off to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-32990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}