Taylor Harry Fritz
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Fritz at the 2016 US Open
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| Full name | Taylor Harry Fritz |
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| Country (sports) |
 United States
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| Residence | Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. |
| Born |
October 28, 1997 Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Turned pro | 2015 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two handed-backhand) |
| Coach(es) | David Nainkin and Christian Groh |
| Prize money | $693,171 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 20–28 (41.67% in Grand Slam and ATP World Tour main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 0 3 Challengers |
| Highest ranking | No. 53 (29 August 2016) |
| Current ranking | No. 126 (20 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2016, 2017) |
| French Open | 1R (2016) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2016) |
| US Open | 1R (2016) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 3–9 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 231 (3 October 2016) |
| Current ranking | No. 319 (20 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| US Open | 1R (2015) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| US Open | 1R (2014, 2015) |
| Last updated on: 20 March 2017. | |
Taylor Harry Fritz (born October 28, 1997) is an American professional tennis player. He is the 2nd-fastest American ever to reach an ATP final, accomplishing the feat in just his 3rd career event.
Both of his parents played professional tennis and his mother Kathy May Fritz was a Top 10 player. He reached the finals in boys' singles at the 2015 French Open and lost to fellow American Tommy Paul in three sets. He avenged the loss by defeating Paul in the boys' singles final at the 2015 US Open.
In 2015, Fritz reached at least the quarterfinal of all 4 junior grand slam tournaments, including the final at the French Open where he lost to Tommy Paul and the final at the U.S. Open where he defeated Paul. This grand slam success helped him finish the year as the number one ranked boy's junior tennis player, for which he was named the 2015 ITF Junior World Champion. He is the first American to hold this title since Donald Young in 2005 and Andy Roddick in 2000.
Fritz played his first ATP Tour tournament at Nottingham, where he received a wild card and won his first ATP match. In September 2015, Fritz turned pro after winning the Junior U.S. Open. He quickly rose from the 600s into the Top 250 of the ATP Rankings by becoming the 9th player at age 17 to win multiple Challenger Tour titles – doing so in back-to-back weeks. The others to accomplish that feat include Top 20 players Bernard Tomic, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet, and Juan Martín del Potro as well as Number 1 overall players Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
After losing in the final of his last tournament of 2015, Fritz reached a final again in his first tournament of 2016, this time winning against Top 100 player Dudi Sela at Happy Valley to catapult to a ranking in the 150s. In the following week, he made it through Australian Open Qualifying to reach his first main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open, where he would lose in the 1st round to fellow American Jack Sock in five sets.
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