The 21st century
United States · born Rancho Santa Fe, California, 1997 · four times Eastbourne champion · Wimbledon semi-finalist 2025
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Grass titles: Eastbourne four times, Stuttgart once
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Eastbourne titles, a record for the event
SF
Best Wimbledon result, 2025
3
Wimbledon quarter-finals in a row, 2024 to 2026
No. 4
Career-high ranking, November 2024
Born in Rancho Santa Fe, California, on 28 October 1997, Fritz is the son of Kathy May, a former top-10 player, and Guy Fritz, who also played professionally. His first tour title came on grass at Eastbourne in 2019. In 2022 he won Indian Wells, beating Rafael Nadal 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the final. In 2024 he reached the US Open final, losing to Jannik Sinner, and the ATP Finals final, rose to a career-high No. 4 in November, and won Olympic doubles bronze with Tommy Paul in Paris. He helped the United States win the United Cup in 2023 and 2025. In 2026 he reached the Stuttgart and Halle finals and a third straight Wimbledon quarter-final, where a knee problem flared against Alexander Zverev.
| Wimbledon best results | Quarter-final 2022, 2024 and 2026; semi-final 2025 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon 2022 | Led Rafael Nadal two sets to one in the quarter-final and lost 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, 5-7, 6-7 (4), with Nadal playing through an abdominal injury |
| Wimbledon 2025 | Lost the semi-final to Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-7 (6), after missing two set points in the fourth-set tie-break |
| Grass titles | Eastbourne 2019, beating Sam Querrey; Eastbourne 2022, beating Maxime Cressy; Eastbourne 2024, beating Max Purcell 6-4, 6-3; Stuttgart 2025, beating Alexander Zverev; Eastbourne 2025, beating Jenson Brooksby |
| Grass finals lost | Stuttgart 2026 to Ben Shelton 4-6, 6-2, 4-6; Halle 2026 to Frances Tiafoe 4-6, 4-6 |
| Wimbledon 2026 | Lost the quarter-final to Alexander Zverev 4-6, 4-6, 2-6, after right knee tendinitis flared early in the match |
| Eastbourne | ||
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| 2019 | Men's singles | |
| 2022 | Men's singles | |
| 2024 | Men's singles | |
| 2025 | Men's singles | |
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| 2025 | Men's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I'm pumped. I always feel like I play well here."
The person behind the player.
Eastbourne 2024
Seeded first, he beat the qualifier Max Purcell 6-4, 6-3 in the final without dropping a set or his serve all week, saving all five break points he faced. He became the first man to win the event three times, after 2019 and 2022. "I'm pumped. I always feel like I play well here," he said. A fourth title followed in 2025.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2022 · Quarter-final
He led Rafael Nadal two sets to one while Nadal struggled with an abdominal injury and his box signalled that he might stop. Nadal won the fifth-set tie-break 10-4. Fritz refused to suggest the slower serves were a tactic, saying "He wouldn't do that for no reason," and admitted he sat at his chair afterwards and could have cried.
Source: tennisnetWimbledon 2025 · First round
On the third point against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard he faced a 153 mph serve, the fastest in Wimbledon history, returned it and won the point with a volley. Two sets down, he forced a fifth set before the 11pm curfew and finished the match in 35 minutes the next day. "I'd much rather deal with the speed than the spot," he said.
Source: Associated Press, via ClickOnDetroitWimbledon 2025 · Semi-final
He was bidding to be the first American man in a Wimbledon final since Andy Roddick in 2009. Against Carlos Alcaraz he broke in the second set to level the match, and in the fourth-set tie-break held two set points that would have forced a fifth. Alcaraz took it 8-6 and went through to his third straight final.
Source: The StarHalle 2026
After losing the Stuttgart final to Ben Shelton, he reached a second final in a row in Halle, beating Alexander Zverev, the French Open champion, in the semi-final. There his compatriot Frances Tiafoe, who had saved match points earlier in the week, beat the fifth seed 6-4, 6-4 for the title.
Source: Fox SportsWimbledon 2026 · Quarter-final
He had beaten Zverev in seven straight meetings, but his chronic right knee tendinitis flared early on Court One and he needed treatment at the start of the second set. "I was just panicking, 'what am I going to do?' I didn't expect it at all," he said after losing 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. "I have no answers as to why three games in it was like that."
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