{"id":659601,"date":"2026-05-23T02:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659601\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:08:13","slug":"taylor-fritz-coming-back-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659601\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz, Coming Back Stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, France \u2014 When Bounces readers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/p\/taylor-fritz-injury-clay-schedule-monte-carlo-munich-michael-russell-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last heard from Taylor Fritz after his loss at the Miami Open in March<\/a>, he was wrestling with whether or not to push through his persistent knee injury to play the clay season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/p\/taylor-fritz-injury-clay-schedule-monte-carlo-munich-michael-russell-coach\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/630ca4c1-c277-4fa5-b7bb-0ab5f942945a_3300.jpeg\"  alt=\"Should He Stay or Should He Go?\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"img-OACg1c smSquare-NGbPBa pencraft pc-reset\"\/>Should He Stay or Should He Go?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fritz, who stubbornly wants to play through pain whenever possible, finally received an ultimatum from coach Michael Russell and the rest of his team who were urging him to rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team literally came to me after Miami and said: \u2018You can go play Monte Carlo, you can go play whatever\u2014but we&#8217;re not coming with you,\u2019\u201d Fritz revealed on Friday in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Fritz, plus thoughts from his first-round opponent Nishesh Basavareddy and current American No. 1 Ben Shelton, please subscribe to Bounces! -Ben<\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?coupon=b87feeef&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;15% off Bounces during 2026 French Open!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?coupon=b87feeef\" class=\"button primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15% off Bounces during 2026 French Open!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, France \u2014 When Bounces readers last heard from Taylor Fritz after his loss at the Miami Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-659601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659601","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=659601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}