Might this be the week that Taylor Fritz breaks his clay-court trophy duck on the ATP Tour?
The 25-year-old despatched out a press release to the remainder of the sphere Thursday on the Gonet Geneva Open, the place he raced previous Ilya Ivashka 6-1, 6-2 with a blistering quarter-final efficiency on the clay-court ATP 250.
Fritz battled via a three-set take a look at towards Marcos Giron in his opening match in Geneva however had no such bother brushing previous the World No. 86 Ivashka within the pair’s first ATP Head2Head assembly. Placing powerfully and with depth off each wings all through, the second seed broke his opponent’s serve twice in every set and didn’t face a break level on his personal supply within the 51-minute encounter.
Fritz flies forwards 👉
He takes the win 6-1, 6-2 towards Ivashka 🔥
@genevaopen | #atpgva pic.twitter.com/MVkZC5UgTI— ATP Tour (@atptour) May 25, 2023
Together with his twenty ninth tour-level victory of the season, Fritz superior to his third tour-level clay-court semi-final of 2023. Having fallen within the closing 4 in Monte-Carlo and Munich, the American will hope to keep up his stage in Geneva as he chases his maiden ATP Tour championship match look on clay.
Standing in his approach of that objective will likely be Grigor Dimitrov or Christopher O’Connell, who meet within the second quarter-final of the day on Thursday.
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