One of the players on Team World who will be sad when Team Europe wins the Laver Cup is Taylor Fritz.
During the competition, Ben Shelton called Fritz a “veteran,” even though the latter had just participated in his fourth Laver Cup.
Having lost in Geneva and Berlin, he has now finished the competition with a 50/50 record, having won in London and Vancouver.
Fritz is changing up his style of play, and that strategy has helped him make an impression for Team World at the Uber Arena.
After Fritz defeated the German in their singles encounter, the American defeated Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev in a doubles match with fellow countryman Shelton.
Following recent games, Taylor Fritz asserts Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.
He did, however, lose to Alcaraz in their singles match; the Spaniard’s victory secured the Team Europe trophy.
During the last Laver Cup press conference for Team World, Fritz outlined the distinctions between competing against Alcaraz and world champion Jannik Sinner.
Fritz remarked, “The conditions are so drastically different that it’s hard to compare the two.” “This is really difficult because it’s so much slower than the US Open.”
“Although I thought Jannik might be able to serve a little bit better, I felt like I didn’t have enough time to play today because I was always being pressured and moved, getting into rallies and trying to figure things out. I was certain that I had less room to maneuver against Carlos. However, both players are crazy.
Taylor Fritz has a fantastic month in the Laver Cup and US Open.
Fritz, who lost to Sinner in the US Open final, does, of course, remember facing him quite recently.
The Italian defeated the runner-up in straight sets during their earlier this month encounter at Flushing Meadows, but not without a struggle.
There was undoubtedly pressure on Fritz back home, as the US Open audience had been clamoring for an American victor.
The new world number seven can feel tremendous pride in reaching his first-ever Grand Slam final, even though it wasn’t meant to be in the end.
Sadly, though, he was rewarded with straight up matches against Zverev, the second-ranked player in the world, and Alcaraz, ranked third.