Taylor Harry Fritz downs Jan-Lennard Struff 5-7 6-1 6-3 in the semifinal in St. Petersburg on Saturday. Fritz will seek to keep on going in this event against Marin Cilic in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 56 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 1st round in 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
Fritz added to his prize money $ 17,500 after winning this match. He has won already $ 60,740 after this win. If he wins the next match, Taylor Harry will add $ 23,980 to his earnings to get in total $ 84,720 in total.
Highlights Taylor Harry Fritz vs. Jan-Lennard Struff St. Petersburg Open – St. Petersburg
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Taylor Harry scored 98 points vs. Jan-Lennard’s 77.
Fritz
The American served pretty well to win 81% of the points (44/54) behind his first serve. However he won only 48% points (13/27) on his second serve. Fritz fired 10 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Fritz was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (5/10).
Struff
On the other side, Struff was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Fritz and Struff is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Taylor Harry Fritz vs. Marin Cilic – stats
Fritz will face Cilic in the final.
This will be the 2nd time that Taylor Harry Fritz and Marin Cilic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fritz (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
Struff clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Struff broke back in the 5th (2-3) and in the 11th (6-5) game to conquer the set 7-5.
They contested 76 points. Jan-Lennard conquered the set after winning 4 more points than the American (40-36). Jan-Lennard dropped 12 points on serve (22-12). In addition, on the other side, the American conceded 18 points on serve (24-18).
The American was too good to drop only 1 game before breaking Jan-Lennard 2 times and win the set 6-1.
The German was outplayed in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-1 to 6-1.
Fritz converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Taylor Harry didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 43 points. Fritz was the one to win the set after conquering 13 more points than Jan-Lennard (28-15). The American was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (15-4). On the losing side, Jan-Lennard conceded 13 points on serve (11-13).
Fritz conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Jan-Lennard Struff in the 1st game (1-0). Fritz reinforced his lead after breaking Struff in the 9th (6-3) game before conquering the set.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (5-7 6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Marin CilicCilic – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Marin CilicCilic – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-1) – H2H details and stats
