The calendar year of 2024 will be one to look back on with some fondness for Taylor Fritz and in the future he might cite it as the year he turned a sizeable corner.
The American player has achieved career-best runs at Grand Slams this year and there must now be real belief that he can win the big tournaments.
Earlier this month, Fritz went majorly close at the US Open, losing out to Jannik Sinner after a sound run to a major final for the very first time.
Clearly heartbroken after such a defeat, Fritz will bottle that feeling and use it as motivation to get over the line and win a big one in the future.
At the weekend Fritz was in action at the Laver Cup and clearly the player is keen to get as much match practice under his belt between now and the end of the year.
What Andy Roddick has said about Taylor Fritz after Laver Cup
It was Team Europe who got their name on the Laver Cup trophy for the first time in three years in Berlin.
Despite Team World holding a big advantage at one point, an inspired run of matches from Carlos Alcaraz led the European outfit to victory.
Fritz was nursing an injury but he’s still managed to impress Roddick for his efforts over the past few weeks.
He told the Served podcast: “One other guy that I was really impressed with was Taylor Fritz, getting back in there after the US Open disappointment. He even fought back from a break down in that second set against Carlos when he was being completely outplayed.
“I’m more and more impressed with Fritz. I don’t think we give him enough credit. He shows up every single day and does his job.
“You never think of him having an off day, giving less than his best effort, playing without a sense of belief, mailing it in. I have a lot of respect for the way Fritz goes about it.”
Fritz can go big in 2025
After breaking a frustrating run of quarter-final finishes to get to a Grand Slam final, Fritz will now have a taste for those occasions.
The player now sits at number seven in the world rankings and that can only bode well for him going into next year.
With a major as early as January, Fritz will be desperate to get off to a flyer in 2025 and prove that his US Open exploits weren’t a flash in the pan.
At 26, the talented performer has bags of time on his side and it will now be fascinating to see what he can achieve in the future.
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