At Canadian Open 2025, Taylor Fritz is the No. 1 hope of American tennis. With Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz's absence, he was ranked No. 2 in the tournament. At this time, the 27 -year -old player is also the leading candidate for the championship when showing impressive performance.
This afternoon, Fritz has just completed the match in the fourth round of men. The opponent of the No. 2 seed is Jiri Lehecka, who has been defeated by him all three times before. On the central field, the two players brought a choking competition, lasting more than 3 hours.
This match, both Fritz and Lehecka saved the extremely effective Break Point and performed excellent serve skills. According to statistics, the match has a total of 39 games, including 15 opportunities for break but both players cannot take advantage. Fritz launched two ACEs in the last series, before Lehecka polished out, ending the choking marathon.
In the end, Taylor Fritz surpassed Jiri Lehecka with a choking score of 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5) to write his name in the quarterfinals. Here, he will confront the seed No. 6 Andrey Rubleev. The Russian player continued after Davidovich Fokina gave up in set 3 due to injury.
Not only that, the victory over Lehecka also helped Fritz complete the quarterfinal collection in all 9 Masters 1000 tournaments. This is something that no American male tennis player has ever achieved in the ATP Masters 1000 era since 2009.
After the victory over Lehecka, Fritz shared: “reaching the quarterfinals of all Masters awards is great. It shows that my performance is quite stable. Today, sometimes my play is not working as desired, but I was 'saved' thanks to the stable serve, even though I made quite a lot of errors.”
