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ATP roundup: Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz to square off in Stuttgart final
Top-flight Americans Ben Shelton and Taylor Fritz will oppose each other in the BOSS Open championship match after winning their respective semifinal matches on Saturday in Stuttgart, Germany.,The top-seeded Shelton played twice on Saturday, beginning the day by winning the final two sets of a suspe...

Nishesh Basavareddy upsets Taylor Fritz at French Open
World No. 8 Taylor Fritz was upset by fellow American Nishesh Basavareddy (ATP No. 156) to headline first-round action of the French Open Sunday at Roland Garros in Paris.,A year after Fritz was upended in the first round at this same event in a shocking upset to German Daniel Altmaier, he repeated ...

Taylor Fritz (knee) returning next week at Geneva Open
Taylor Fritz will return to the ATP Tour next week at the Geneva Open in Switzerland, he confirmed through the tournament's social media.,The 28-year-old American has been dealing with chronic knee tendinitis and has not competed since a Round of 16 loss in Miami on March 24.,"I am super excited to ...

Carlos Alcaraz, Lorenzo Musetti win marathon matches at ATP Finals
The Jimmy Connors Group was on full display at the Nitto ATP Finals on Tuesday and neither match disappointed the raucous crowds in Turin, Italy.,Spain's Carlos Alcaraz and Italy's Lorenzo Musetti both staged rallies to earn victories in three-set matches that approached the 3-hour mark.,Alcaraz mov...

Jannik Sinner takes crucial first step in ATP Finals title defense
If there were any nerves in opening his title defense of the Nitto ATP Finals, Italy's Jannik Sinner brushed past them with ease on Monday.,Sinner won his 27th consecutive indoor match with a 7-5, 6-1 victory over Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in the Bjorn Borg Group before a partisan crowd at the ...

ATP roundup: Taylor Fritz upends Alexander Zverev in Germany
Second-seeded Taylor Fritz recorded a 6-3, 7-6 (0) win over home favorite Alexander Zverev in the final of the BOSS Open on Sunday at Stuttgart, Germany.,Fritz fired 11 aces to defeat the top-seeded German for the fifth straight time and capture his first title of the year and ninth overall. ,The Am...

Jack Draper continues hot run, upsets Taylor Fritz in Paris
Great Britain's Jack Draper continued his torrid play, knocking off fifth-seeded Taylor Fritz 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-4 on Wednesday to advance to the Round of 16 at the Rolex Paris Masters.,Draper has won seven consecutive matches, dating back to the start of the Erste Bank Open, which he captured on Sunda...

Jannik Sinner wins U.S. Open, extends U.S. Grand Slam drought
Italy's Jannik Sinner was in complete control Sunday, winning the U.S. Open men's singles title with a 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 victory over American No. 12 seed Taylor Fritz in New York.,It was Sinner's second Grand Slam title of the year after Sinner took the Australian Open in January. The World No. 1 also ...

Jannik Sinner wins U.S. Open, extends USA Grand Slam drought
Italy's Jannik Sinner was in complete control Sunday, winning the U.S. Open men's singles title with a 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 victory over the United States' Taylor Fritz in New York.,It was Sinner's second Grand Slam title of the year after taking the Australian Open in January, while also extending the Uni...

Novak Djokovic had a bad day at the office, for once
If beating Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros is sport’s toughest assignment, beating Novak Djokovic in Melbourne can’t be too far behind it. He hadn’t lost there in some 3,000 days (a COVID deportation playing some role in that), he’s won the tournament 10 times and he was still coming off a previous se...

Novak Djokovic was the boulder, Taylor Fritz was Sisyphus
It has to be hard enough to work through the mental gymnastics it takes to take the court against Novak Djokovic, convinced you can win. That’s what professional athletes do, of course, it’s part of the job. But they’re also still human, and it gets hard to shut out the list that makes Djokovic the ...

The US Open has been a tough watch the past few days
The US Open used to bill itself as “The World’s Toughest Tennis.” It’s New York, which has to bill anything having to do with itself as the “biggest and toughest” or the city will collapse in on itself. But the Open was on hardcourt, it was at the end of summer so it was hot, and they used to make p...
