Taylor Fritz has turn out to be a Grand Slam finalist and cracked the Prime 5 within the final two seasons, proving that he’s America’s prime canine and a risk to go deep in each match he performs.
However the put on and tear of the final three seasons – which included 229 matches, a median of greater than 76 a season – has taken a toll on the Southern Californian.
A lot, in actual fact, that Fritz now says the largest key to unlocking future success on tour will likely be staying well being. No small feat.
“I believe during the last 4 years I really feel like I’ve continued to enhance rather a lot as a participant and only a a lot better tennis participant,” he instructed reporters in Perth, the place he’s competing in United Cup. “I believe the one factor that I’ve been noticing now’s the physique simply has to have the ability to sustain with it.
“It’s a variety of demand sort of enjoying so many matches that you simply do when you’re a higher-ranked participant. There’s no query to me that I’m going to maintain enhancing as a participant. I believe the largest factor forward of me is I’ve to remain wholesome, and my physique has to really feel robust prefer it did my first yr within the prime 10 to ensure that me to maintain pushing it to the calls for of the extent of tennis that should, I suppose, be performed to maintain up with the very prime guys.
After his first match, a three-set loss to Argentina’s Sebastian Baez, Fritz admitted that the majority of his low season was spent attempting to get his knee to peak health. That work, nonetheless, nonetheless isn’t fully executed.
“I spent the bulk — just about everything of the low season attempting to rehab my knee tendinopathy, however that’s a factor that takes months and months to get higher,” he stated.
Fritz additionally has a variety of rust to knock off after an low season with out a lot aggressive tennis.
“I didn’t get to play a variety of factors as a result of I’m attempting to not push it too arduous,” he stated. “So it’s simply going to be a wrestle of attempting to get the reps in and get the factors and matches in to start out feeling like I’m snug whereas juggling that whereas nonetheless managing my knee ache as a result of I’m going to attempt to play by means of and preserve doing the rehab whereas touring and getting higher, but when that doesn’t work in a few months, then I’m simply going to need to full cease and repair it.”
