The highest-seeded American man at the U.S. Open is on to the quarterfinal once again.
Taylor Fritz bounced back from a first-set deficit to grind out a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 upset victory over the No. 8-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway inside a humid closed-roof Louis Armstrong Stadium on Sunday, securing his spot in the final eight for the second year in a row.
Ruud broke Fritz’s serve for the first time in the eighth game of the first set, which teed up Ruud to easily take the opening frame. The crowd in Flushing Meadows let Fritz know they were with him when he whiffed on his first set point. A “Let’s Go Taylor!” chant then broke out just before Ruud committed a double-fault to hand Fritz the second set.
Commanding a 3-0 lead in the third set and then jumping out to a 4-0 lead in the fourth, Fritz had completely taken control of the match in the back end of it. A 106-mph ace, which wasn’t even close to his fastest of the match at 131 mph, sealed the win for Fritz.Fritz is not alone on the quest to end a 21-year drought since the last American man won the U.S. Open, but he is one of the favorites to do so.
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