The American tennis player Taylor Fritz defeated the Chinese Yibing Wu 6-4, 7-6(5) after 1h31m of play in the second round of the ATP 250 in Atlanta. Thus, the world No. 9 will face either Kei Nishikori or Juncheng Shang in the quarterfinals.
Taylor Fritz He has managed to remain among the best tennis players on the planet in recent years, consecrating a very interesting, aggressive, powerful and precise tennis that gave him enormous results. In this season he was able to get into the Top Ten and become a danger to any opponent. His only 2023 title so far is the Delray Beach ATP. In Atlanta he starts from him as the top seed and in his debut in the second round he was measured against Yibing Wu. The Chinese gave a real surprise by getting the ATP Dallas trophy at the beginning of the year.
Fritz takes it in straight sets
Taylor Fritz and Yibing Wu looked at each other in the round of 16 of the Atlanta ATP.
The start of the game was completely dominated by the American, who attacked with a lot of pressure and aggressiveness to get two continuous breaks. On his side, after that intense start in which he couldn’t find the forms, the Chinese raised his pace, took greater risks and recovered a break to get into play. However, Taylor held at 0 to keep the distance in his favor. Serving for a set, Fritz felt the tension, Wu put pressure on him, but saved a break point and needed five set points to get into position. 6-4 in 36 minutes.
The first six games of the second set were very even, with the services taking center stage and both without giving up ground. In the seventh game, Yibing put on the overalls to pull off a very difficult service game in which he faced three break points against, to stay alive. Then, the American created another chance again, but without taking advantage of it. With a lot of conviction and attitude, the Chinese accelerated with the return, he was encouraged to look for variations, he generated two set points, but he did not materialize it. Finally, they went to the tie break. There, Fritz was superior and sealed it by 6-4, 7-6(5) after 1h31m.
2023-07-28 01:46:36
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