{"id":114187,"date":"2025-08-02T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114187\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T23:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:29:12","slug":"taylor-fritz-says-what-he-is-struggling-to-deal-with-at-the-canadian-open-ive-been-having-an-incredibly-hard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114187\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz says what he is struggling to deal with at the Canadian Open, \u2018I’ve been having an incredibly hard time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Taylor Fritz is currently steaming through the competition in Montreal, but has levelled a flurry of issues that he is still struggling to deal with.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It would have been hard to tell if he had not divulged that information though, given how comprehensive his first two wins have been.<\/p>\n

First facing Roberto Carball\u00e9s Baena, he brushed the Spaniard aside before knocking out the last-remaining Canadian from the draw in Gabriel Diallo.<\/p>\n

This marked a repeat of their Wimbledon showdown, which lasted over five enthralling sets. Taylor Fritz<\/a> was in a cutthroat mood last night though, unwilling to get dragged into a dogfight against the big-serving youngster.<\/p>\n

However, even after that 6-4, 6-2 win, he took time to outline his personal issues.<\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz admits he\u2019s struggling with the Canadian Open conditions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters, he spoke at length about the Canadian Open<\/a> conditions and how he is struggling to adapt.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I feel like it\u2019s like everything since being here,\u201d he began. \u201cYesterday was the first practice I had since being here that I actually felt like I could like, genuinely, I felt like I knew where the ball was gonna go off my racket. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike, I\u2019ve been having an incredibly hard time just putting the ball in the court. Typically, when I\u2019m missing shots, I know exactly why I\u2019m missing. I know what I did wrong. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike the first couple of days I was here and even in my first round match, there are balls going ten feet long that feel exactly the same as the one that was just right before it went in. So I just felt like in general, the conditions are\u2026 It\u2019s been really hard to just play good tennis. I think there\u2019s a lot of like ugly tennis, there\u2019s a lot of people double-faulting, a lot of mistakes. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s two things. I think these balls are for sure the hardest balls to control that we play with all year at the Wilson US Opens, and they\u2019re not bad. It\u2019s just the balls that we\u2019ve been playing with on tour for the last couple of years consistently the most. They\u2019re just really soft and like more dead. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you know, they slow down off the bounce. They hold on your strings longer. There\u2019s just, like a more soft dead ball that we play with. <\/p>\n

\"TaylorPhoto by Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cSo now you play with these, they shoot off your racket, they jump off the court faster, and then this court is very fast compared to, I thought DC was pretty fast. This is faster coming through the court even more. So it\u2019s tough to control for sure. <\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone hits a really big, flat ball into you. It\u2019s tough to just play back into the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz is looking like a real threat for the Canadian Open title<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite what he claims, Fritz is looking really strong after just two matches in Montreal.<\/p>\n

And, with Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner all absent from the Canadian Open<\/a>, a real opportunity is brewing for someone like the top-ranked male American to secure this elite title.<\/p>\n

Against Diallo, his serve actually left a little to be desired, only managing to get 54% of his first serves in.<\/p>\n

However, when it did go in, he won it 88% of the time and faced just a single break point.<\/p>\n

If he can gain a little more consistency, which perhaps might come with more time on these courts and with these balls, then there are few in the draw left to trouble him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz is currently steaming through the competition in Montreal, but has levelled a flurry of issues that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[47618,62,12335,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-canadian-open","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-taylor-fritz","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114961774435431960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}