Francisco Cerundolo came back from two sets down to knock out Taylor Fritz at the US Open. <\/p>\n
It was a good start from the former finalist who went up 3-0 in the opening stages of the match with Cerundolo committing a lot of errors. <\/p>\n
The American was serving and returning well as he was hitting his spots well and took a two set lead at 6-3 6-4. <\/p>\n
It looked like it was going to be Fritz\u2019s day when he broke in the opening game of the third set but that was the turning point for Cerundolo. <\/p>\n
Their Argentinian elevated his level and broke twice in the second and sixth games on his way to taking the third set 6-3. <\/p>\n
It was an efficient fourth set from Cerundolo who saved a break point in the second game before breaking in the seventh game to take this match into a deciding set. <\/p>\n
In the fifth set Fritz was the more dominant on serve and looked like he had the momentum when he had 0-40 in the eighth game. <\/p>\n
However, Cerundolo played some bold and proactive tennis to save all three break points before he broke in the ninth game. <\/p>\n
The Argentinian closed out the win from 0-30 as he won four consecutive points and produced one of the best wins of his career. <\/p>\n
After the match Cerundolo described the win as \u2018fantastic,\u2019 \u201cHe was playing way better than me the first two sets,\u201d Cerundolo admitted in his post-match interview on the ATP website. <\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t feeling comfortable at all. But after I broke back in the third, I started getting into it step by step, and I think the fourth and fifth I played really good tennis. I wasn\u2019t finding that tennis in the previous sets or previous rounds. Taylor is a top player. He made the final here and won a lot of matches, so I know how hard it is to play against him. But winning here, on my first time on Ashe, is fantastic.\u201d <\/p>\n
As for Fritz it\u2019s back to the drawing board as he will see this as a massive missed opportunity for him. <\/p>\n
Cerundolo will now play Alexander Blockx in the last 16 after the Belgian stunned Roland Garros finalist Flavio Cobolli in four sets. <\/p>\n
It was a stunning performance from Blockx who defeated the Italian 6-7(4) 6-3 6-0 6-3 to reach the last 16 in New York for the first time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Cerundolo came back from two sets down to knock out Taylor Fritz at the US Open. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-66853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-taylor-fritz","tag-taylor-fritz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}