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Unbeatable debut in Dallas: Fritz achieves his fastest victory of the year

The American achieves his seventh triumph of 2025

February 06, 2025

Taylor Fritz has played on Wednesday at Dallas Open one of his best games of the season. In fact, he has achieved his fastest victory of 2025 by defeating Arthur Rinderknech in just 66 minutes to complete an almost perfect debut.

No. 4 of the PIF ATP Rankings does not even faced breakup opportunities. In addition, he only lost seven points with his serve, connected eleven aces and did not commit any double foul. Its effectiveness taking it with the three ruptures that made the rest to leave in 3-0 its lexus ATP Headtohead with the current No. 60 of the world.

Fritz arrived at this event with 6-2 record in the season, and with the pressure of being the first standard head in this event in which his best result is semifinals, a round that reached in 2023 before the eventual Wu champion.

“It’s good to leave and take care of my service, find a couple of breaks and win four and two,” said Fritz after the game. “I feel that I took a fairly good percentage of first services [67 por ciento]… and they were of quality. He was hitting near the lines, mixing it well, without really giving him the opportunity to find out where he was taking out or getting a good blow to the returns. That was a great key in the game. “

Now it was one step away from its third quarter in the contest. First he must prevail before the winner of the duel between the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic and the Canadian Denis Shapovalov. With the first one has a record of 3-1; with the second, 4-5.

In other results of the day, the Czech Tomas Machac beat 6-2, 6-2 to the Japanese Kei Nishikori in just 62 minutes to establish a second round duel with the Australian Rinky Hijikata, who comes from leaving Frenchman Adrian Adrian Mannarino (7-5, 6-3).

In addition, the Reilly Opelka local defeated 7-6 (3), 6-4 Al Kazajo Alexander Shevchenko. After connecting 18 aces, No. 145 of the ranks won an hour and 16 minutes to become the next rival of the British Cameron Norrie, with whom he has a record of 1-2.