Taylor Fritz came back from one set down to beat Alex De Minaur 5-7 6-4 6-3 in 2 hours and 8 minutes at the Nitto ATP Finals at the Inalpi Arena in Turin. Fritz clinched his second win at the Nitto ATP Finals. With this win the US player has boosted his chances to reach the semifinals at the Nitto ATP Finals for the second time in his career.
De Minaur earned the first break in the seventh game of the first set to take a 4-3 lead. Fritz broke straight back in the eighth game to draw level to 4-4. De Minaur converted his second break point in the 11th game to take a 6-5 lead and served out the first set with a hold at 15. De Minaur outhit 12 winners to seven.
Fritz hit his first ace in the seventh game of the second set. He saved a break point at 40/AD in the seventh game of the second set, which went on serve until the 10th game, where Fritz earned a crucial break on his third set point to send the match to the third set.
Fritz converted his second break point in the fourth game to open up a 3-1 lead. The US Open finalist held on his service games and served out on his first match point to improve to 4-5 in his head-to-head matches against De Minaur.
Fritz converted three of his six break points. The 27-year-old US player won two titles in Delray Beach and Eastbourne and lost to Jannik Sinner in the US Open final.
“It’s tough because even though I won the match, I feel like there wasn’t necessarily any moment when I feel like I had a repeatable way to win from the baseline, to be honest. He was all over me. What I did a great job of was towards the end of the second set. I really started to find my serve. I was serving much better and that allowed to just stay with it and create more pressure on his service games. When I was not making the first serves, he was just killing me from the baseline, so it just gave me a little bit of comfort to stay in the match and not be under so much pressure all the time. I was able to come up with some good shots at some good times, play off some of the his mistakes, but it was incredibly tough”, said Fritz.
