Taylor Fritz will look to take a major step toward becoming the first American man in 20 years to win a Grand Slam when he faces Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open quarter-finals on Tuesday while compatriot Coco Gauff headlines action in the women's draw.
Fritz is the highest-seeded U.S. player in the men's draw and has yet to drop a set at the year's final Grand Slam but the 25-year-old will face his toughest test yet against an opponent he has never beaten in seven meetings.
"I think I need to trust that if I'm playing well, then that's going to be enough, and I don't need to kind of do anything extra," said Fritz. There have been 78 Grand Slams played since Andy Roddick won the 2003 U.S. Open and hopes that an American man can snap that title drought at one of the sport's blue-riband events have fallen largely on the shoulders of Fritz and Frances Tiafoe.
Tiafoe enjoyed a run to the U.S. Open semi-finals in 2022 and, while he failed to replicate that at the year's first Grand Slams, has again looked comfortable on the New York hardcourts having dropped just one set en route to the quarter-finals.
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