Taylor Fritz

Fritz played his first ATP Tour tournament at Nottingham, where he received a wild card and won his first ATP match against Pablo Carreño Busta.[12]

In September 2015, Fritz turned pro after winning the Junior US Open. He quickly rose from the 600s into the Top 250 of the ATP Rankings by becoming the 9th player at age 17 to win multiple Challenger Tour titles – doing so in back-to-back weeks. The others to accomplish that feat include Top 20 players Bernard Tomic, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet, and Juan Martín del Potro as well as Number 1 overall players Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.[13]

After losing in the final of his last tournament of 2015, Fritz reached a final again in his first tournament of 2016, this time winning against Top 100 player Dudi Sela at Happy Valley to catapult to a ranking in the 150s. In the following week, he made it through Australian Open Qualifying to reach his first main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open, where he would lose in the 1st round to fellow American Jack Sock in five sets.

Fritz was awarded a wild card into his first ATP 250 tournament of 2016 at Memphis and knocked off the 2nd-seeded Steve Johnson, who at No. 29 was the highest ranked player Fritz had ever defeated. With his victory over Ricardas Berankis in the semi-final, he became the youngest American to reach an ATP final since Michael Chang in 1988, and also the 2nd-fastest American ever to reach an ATP final, doing so in just his 3rd career ATP tournament. John Isner is the only American that was able to reach an ATP final faster.[3][14] Fritz would lose in the final to three-time defending champion and Top 10 player Kei Nishikori. In February, Fritz cracked the Top 100 for the first time by reaching the quarter-finals in Acapulco at his first career ATP 500 event.

Fritz's grass court season was highlighted by a close three set loss to Roger Federer at Stuttgart. He would end up peaking in the rankings at No. 53 towards the end of the summer. At the US Open, Fritz drew Jack Sock in the first round of a grand slam for the second time this year, again losing in five sets.

To cap off the year, Fritz won the ATP Star of Tomorrow for being the youngest player in the Top 100, having just turned 19 years old.

Fritz was able to achieve his first victory over a top ten ATP player at Indian Wells defeating sixth seed Marin Cilic in the second round. Fritz struggled through the first half of the year with injury problems, and ended up skipping the clay court season to focus on recovering.[15] He returned to form in the summer with quarterfinals at Los Cabos and Winston-Salem. In his seventh grand slam appearance, Fritz won his first match at a major tournament by knocking out Marcos Baghdatis at the US Open.

After finishing 2017 just outside the Top 100, Fritz had a good start to the 2018 season, reaching two Challenger finals in January. He returned to the Top 100 of the ATP rankings by reaching the final in New Caledonia, though he lost there to Noah Rubin. Following a loss in qualifying at the Australian Open, he then won his first Challenger title in two years at the inaugural event in Newport Beach, not too far from his current residence in Palos Verdes. He continued his strong start by making it to the 4th round at Indian Wells, his first Round of 16 appearance at a Masters event.

Fritz kicked off the clay court season with a semifinals appearance at the US Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, the best result on clay of his career thus far. In the tournament, he upset Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock before losing to Steve Johnson. This helped him get back to No. 66 in the world.

At the US Open, Fritz reached his first Grand Slam third round, defeating Mischa Zverev and Jason Kubler, before losing to 9th-seeded Dominic Thiem in four sets.[16]

Earlier in the season, Fritz began working with Paul Annacone, who helped him reach a career-high ranking of #47.[17][18]

Fritz made the third round at the Australian Open, losing to Roger Federer in 3 sets. Fritz then went on to win the Challenger at Newport Beach California; he defeated Brayden Schnur of Canada in the final in straight sets. In June, Fritz won his first ATP Tour title at the Eastbourne International tournament by defeating Sam Querrey in straight sets.

In the first round of Wimbledon, Fritz defeated Tomas Berdych in straight sets, before losing to Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets.[19]

At the US Open, Fritz was seeded 26th, his first-ever Grand Slam seeding. However, he lost to Feliciano Lopez in the first round.[20]

Fritz represented Team World in the third annual Laver Cup, held in Geneva. In his first singles match, he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas, 2-6, 6-1, 7-10.[21] Fritz bounced back on the final day of play, defeating Dominic Thiem, 7-5, 6-7(3), 10-5.[22]

At the Swiss Indoors, Fritz defeated 2nd-seeded Alexander Zverev in the first round, 7-6(9), 6-4.[23]

After achieving a career-high ranking of #25 in August, Fritz ended the year ranked #32 in the world.[24]

Fritz began his season at the inaugural ATP Cup, representing Team USA. He went 1-2 in singles competition, as Team USA was sent out of the tournament in the round-robin stage.[25]

At the Australian Open, Fritz reached the third round, posting a five-set victory over Kevin Anderson. He was then defeated by eventual finalist Dominic Thiem.[26]

Fritz reached his first ATP 500 final in Acapulco, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. However, his runner-up showing propelled him to a new career-high ranking of #24.[27]

At the 2020 US Open, Fritz was seeded 19th. He defeated Dominik Koepfer in four sets and then beat Gilles Simon in the second round before losing to Denis Shapovalov in five sets.

At the 2020 French Open, Fritz was seeded 27th. He defeated Tomáš Macháč in five sets and Radu Albot in straight sets before losing to Lorenzo Sonego in straight sets. The match against Sonego had the longest tie-break in French Open history, with Fritz eventually losing the tie-break 17-19.

Fritz's match record against players who have been ranked in the Top 10, with those who are active in boldface.
Only ATP Tour (incl. Grand Slams) main draw, Davis Cup and Laver Cup matches are considered.

Player	HR	MP	Won	Lost	Win%	Last Match	Hard	Clay	Grass
Number 1 ranked players
Rafael Nadal	1	1	0	1	0%	Lost (3–6, 2–6) at 2020 Acapulco F ||0–1|| – || –
Novak Djokovic	1	2	0	2	0%	Lost (4–6, 2–6) at 2019 Madrid Masters 2R || – ||0–2|| –
Roger Federer	1	2	0	2	0%	Lost (2–6, 5–7, 2–6) at 2019 Australian Open 3R ||0–1|| – ||0–1
Number 3 ranked players
Grigor Dimitrov	3	1	1	0	100%	Won (7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–4)) at 2019 Madrid Masters 1R || – ||1–0|| –
Marin Čilić	3	1	1	0	100%	Won (7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–1)) at 2017 Indian Wells Masters 2R ||1–0|| – || –
Alexander Zverev	3	3	1	2	33%	Won (7–6(9–7), 6–4) at 2019 Basel 1R ||1–1|| – ||0–1
Dominic Thiem	3	4	1	3	25%	Lost (2–6, 4–6, 7–6(7–5), 4-6) at 2020 Australian Open 3R ||1–3|| – || –
David Ferrer	3	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–7(6–8), 1–6) at 2016 Miami Masters 2R ||0–1|| – || –
Stan Wawrinka	3	2	0	2	0%	Lost (3–6, 4–6) at 2018 Tokyo 1R ||0–1|| – ||0–1
Number 4 ranked players
Tomáš Berdych	4	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–4, 6–4, 6–3) at 2019 Wimbledon Championships 1R || – || – ||1–0
Kei Nishikori	4	3	0	3	0%	Lost (2–6, 4–6) at 2019 Rome Masters 2R ||0–1||0–2|| –
Number 5 ranked players
Kevin Anderson	5	1	1	0	100%	Won (4–6, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–2, 6–2) at 2020 Australian Open 2R ||1–0|| – || –
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	5	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–4, 2–0RET) at 2019 Monte-Carlo Masters 1R || – ||1–0|| –
Stefanos Tsitsipas	5	2	0	2	0%	Lost (6–7(3–7), 3–6) at 2019 Paris Masters 2R ||0–2|| – || –
Number 6 ranked players
Gaël Monfils	6	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–3, 6–7(8–10), 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–5)) at 2019 Australian Open 2R ||1–0|| – || –
Gilles Simon	6	2	1	1	50%	Won (7–5, 6–3, 6–2) at 2020 US Open 2R ||1–0||0–1|| –
Number 7 ranked players
Fernando Verdasco	7	3	2	1	67%	Won (7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), 6–4) at 2019 Shanghai Masters 1R ||2–1|| – || –
David Goffin	7	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–3, 1–6, 6–7(3–7)) at 2019 Cincinnati Masters 1R ||0–1|| – || –
Number 8 ranked players
Marcos Baghdatis	8	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–4, 6–4, 6–3) at 2017 US Open 1R ||1–0|| – || –
Matteo Berrettini	8	1	1	0	100%	Won (5–7, 7–6(7–5), 6–2) at 2019 Davis Cup Finals RR ||1–0|| – || –
John Isner	8	4	2	2	50%	Win (2–6, 7−5, 6−3) at 2020 Acapulco SF ||2–1|| – ||0–1
Jack Sock	8	4	2	2	50%	Won (7–6(8–6), 6–2) at 2018 Lyon 2R ||0–2||2–0|| –
Mikhail Youzhny	8	2	1	1	50%	Won (6–1, 4–6, 6–3) at 2018 Delray Beach 2R ||1–1|| – || –
Diego Schwartzman	8	3	1	2	33%	Lost (6–7(6–8), 3–6) at 2019 Los Cabos F ||0–2||1–0|| –
Karen Khachanov	8	2	0	2	0%	Lost (6–3, 5–7, 1–6) at 2020 ATP Cup RR ||0–2|| – || –
Number 9 ranked players
Fabio Fognini	9	2	1	1	50%	Won (6–1, 7–6(7–1)) at 2019 Los Cabos QF ||1–1|| – || –
Roberto Bautista Agut	9	5	1	4	20%	Lost (6–7(10–12), 0–6) at 2019 Halle 1R ||0–2||1–1||0–1
Number 10 ranked players
Pablo Carreño Busta	10	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–1, 6–4) at 2015 Nottingham 1R || – || – ||1–0
Juan Mónaco	10	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–7(2–7), 6–7(5–7)) at 2016 Tokyo 1R || – ||0–1|| –
Denis Shapovalov	10	3	0	3	0%	Lost (2–6, 2–6) at [[2020 US Open (tennis)}2020 US Open]] 3R ||0–3|| – || –
Total		61	22	39	36%	* Statistics correct as of 16 October 2020	14–27	6–7	2–5

• Fritz has a 6–17 (26.1%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	TF Rank
2017
1.	Marin Čilić	7	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	2R	4–6, 7–5, 6–4	136
2019
2.	John Isner	10	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	2R	7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–5)	50
3.	Fabio Fognini	9	Los Cabos, Mexico	Hard	QF	6–1, 7–6(7–1)	28
4.	Dominic Thiem	5	Laver Cup, Geneva, Switzerland	Hard (i)	RR	7−5, 6−7(3−7), [10−5]	30
5.	Alexander Zverev	6	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	1R	7–6(9–7), 6–4	31
6.	Matteo Berrettini	8	Davis Cup Finals, Madrid, Spain	Hard (i)	GS	5–7, 7–6(7–5), 6–2	32