Taylor Fritz

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.

Junior Grand Slam Finals
Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	2015	French Open	Clay	Tommy Paul	6–7(4–7), 6–2, 2–6
Winner	2015	US Open	Hard	Tommy Paul	6–2, 6–7(4–7), 6–2

2015: Challenger Tour success

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 Martin del Potro as well as Number 1 overall players Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

2016: Surge into Top 100

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.

Fritz was awarded a wild card into his first ATP 250 tournament of 2016 at Memphis and knocked off the 2nd-seeded Steve Johnson, who at No. 29 is the highest ranked player Fritz had ever defeated. With his victory over Ricardas Berankis in the semi-final, he became the youngest American to reach an ATP final since Michael Chang in 1988, and also the 2nd-fastest American ever to reach an ATP final, doing so in just his 3rd career ATP tournament. John Isner is the only American that was able to reach an ATP final faster. Fritz would lose in the final to three-time defending champion and Top 10 player Kei Nishikori. In February, Fritz cracked the Top 100 for the first time by reaching the quarter-finals in Acapulco at his first career ATP 500 event.

Fritz's grass court season was highlighted by a close three set loss to Roger Federer at Stuttgart. He would end up peaking in the rankings at No. 53 towards the end of the summer. At the US Open, Fritz drew Jack Sock in the first round of a grand slam for the second time this year, again losing in five sets.

To cap off the year, Fritz won the ATP Star of Tomorrow for being the youngest player in the Top 100, having just turned 19 years old.

Fritz possesses a dominant serve that can reach 130 mph and solid groundstrokes off both wings.

When Fritz played his first match against Roger Federer, he recalled when in computer class in the 5th grade, he live streamed the 2009 US Open final between Federer and Juan Martin del Potro.

He married tennis player Raquel Pedraza in California in July 2016, after dating for over two years. On January 16, 2017, six months after Fritz' wedding to Pedraza, Jon Wertheim announced on Tennis Channel at 8:05 p.m. ET that Fritz was flying home after his first round loss in the Australian Open (tennis) as his wife had gone into labor with their first child.

Singles: (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	000000002016-02-14-0000February 14, 2016	Memphis Open, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Kei Nishikori	4–6, 4–6

Singles: (3–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	October 11, 2015	Sacramento, CA, United States	Hard	Jared Donaldson	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	2.	October 18, 2015	Fairfield, CA, United States	Hard	Dustin Brown	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	November 21, 2015	Champaign, IL, United States	Hard (i)	Henri Laaksonen	6–4, 2–6, 2–6
Winner	4.	January 10, 2016	Happy Valley, Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Dudi Sela	7–6(9–7), 6–2

Current through the 2016 Paris Masters.