Number 7 in world tennis, the American Taylor Fritzregretted that he was not inspired enough in the important moments of the rivalry that he lost today in the semifinals of Shanghai 1,000 Masters against the fourth best tennis player at the moment, the Serbian Novak Djokovic.
“I didn’t see what I needed to in a lot of important moments, and he (Djokovic) got good shots in key points,” he said in press statements after the match.
In any case, Fritz He assured that, despite the self-criticism, today he played “pretty well for most of the game,” ending up in the Serbian side for 6-4 and 7-6 (6) in one hour and 56 minutes.
Regarding his performance in the tournament, the American celebrated reaching the semifinals: “I haven’t achieved a good result here (in Shanghai), so it’s good. And every time I do well in a tournament, it gives me a big boost confidence.”
Djokovic now extended its absolute dominance before Fritz: both members of the current ‘top 10‘of world tennis have played 9 matches so far, and all of them fell to the side of Belgrade, the last of them in the quarterfinals of the Atomorrow from Australia this same year.
Fritz He joked about that statistic after his last game, admitting himself to be “excited” at the prospect of getting his first win against Djokovicsomething that, in any case, he described as “incredibly difficult”: “One of these times it will happen to me, I’m getting better and better.”
Source: La Verdad
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