Taylor Fritz has lost all seven of his previous meetings with Novak Djokovic and while the American ninth seed will be a huge underdog against the 23-times Grand Slam champion he says a U.S. Open quarter-final is the perfect stage to halt that losing run.
Fritz eased past Swiss qualifier Dominic Stricker 7-6 6-4 6-4 on Sunday to secure his place in the last eight in New York, where the 25-year-old is bidding to become the first American man to win a Grand Slam singles title in two decades.
"There's no one on tour that has any kind of a record like that against me, so I'm hoping one of these times I've got to get him. The U.S. Open quarters would be a pretty good time." "It's good that I got the one in Cincinnati out of the way," said Fritz. "Not that it would have necessarily changed anything, but I was not at my best that day.
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