ATP Finals: Taylor Fritz beats Alexander Zverev to become 1st American to enter final since 2006

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Taylor Fritz of the United States celebrates aft winning the ATP World Tour Finals semifinal tennis lucifer against Germany's Alexander Zverevat astatine the Inalpi Arena successful Turin, Italy, Saturday, November 16, 2024. (AP Photo)

American tennis prima Taylor Fritz has precocious to the last of the ATP Finals connected Saturday aft defeating Alexander Zverev successful a hard-fought three-set match.

With this victory, Fritz has secured his spot arsenic the archetypal American finalist astatine the prestigious lawsuit since James Blake successful 2006. Blake had mislaid the last to Roger Federer.

The past American to clinch the ATP Finals rubric was Pete Sampras successful 1999. Fritz present has a accidental to emulate Sampras’ feat and assertion the coveted trophy.

“I spot my crippled and I spot my level and I don’t consciousness astir arsenic uncomfortable successful these situations anymore due to the fact that I’ve been I’ve been playing the apical guys astatine large events a batch lately. I’m getting much comfy successful the moment. I’m really, truly assured successful my game,” Fritz said aft his triumph implicit Zverev who was the ATP Finals champion successful 2018 and 2021.

Fritz present awaits his rival successful the last which volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday. Top-ranked Jannik Sinner — the subordinate who defeated Fritz successful the US Open last — is facing Casper Ruud, successful the 2nd semi-final aboriginal connected Saturday.

“It’s awesome to travel backmost and already spell a measurement further,” Fritz said. “I’m each astir ever trying to bash amended than the twelvemonth before.”

This triumph successful the semi-finals was Fritz’s 4th consecutive triumph implicit Zverev, who replaced Carlos Alcaraz astatine No 2 successful the rankings this week.

As the Associated Press reported, this was a matchup of large servers betwixt the 6-foot-5 (1.96-meter) Fritz and the 6-foot-6 (1.98-meter) Zverev, and erstwhile Fritz broke Zverev for 4-2 successful the archetypal set, it marked the archetypal clip that Zverev mislaid a work crippled successful 4 matches successful Turin.

Fritz, who is No 5 successful the satellite rankings, besides bushed Zverev astatine Wimbledon and the US Open, positive the Laver Cup.

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