Merciless Fritz motors past Kyrgios in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open. HIGHLIGHTS – CINCINNATI RESULTS

WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN - CINCINNATI DRAW AND RESULTS. Fritz crushes Kyrgios to face Andrey Rublev in the 3rd round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Taylor Harry Fritz vs. Nick Kyrgios

Taylor Harry Fritz exterminates Nick Kyrgios 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday after playing a good match to deal with Andrey Rublev in the 3rd round. The match lasted just 50 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 2nd round in 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.

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Fritz's Record

The American added to his prize money $ 39,195 after winning this match. He has won already $ 84,510 after this win. If he wins the next match, Fritz will add $ 73,485 to his earnings to get in total $ 157,995 in total.

Highlights Taylor Harry Fritz vs. Nick Kyrgios Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

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At the end of the match, Taylor scored 59 points vs. Kyrgios’s 39.

Fritz

Taylor served pretty well to win 86% of the points (30/35) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (9/15) on his second serve. Taylor fired 16 aces and he committed 1 double fault. The American won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.

Kyrgios

On the other side, the Australian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Fritz and Kyrgios is 1-0 for Taylor.

Draw and next match H2H: Taylor Harry Fritz vs. Andrey Rublev – stats

Fritz will square off with Rublev in the 3rd round.

This will be the 6th time that Taylor Harry Fritz and Andrey Rublev play each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Fritz (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they played, Fritz won 7-5 6-4 in the semifinal in Indian wells back in March 2022.

Taylor Harry Fritz Draw info

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There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Fritz conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before finally conquering the set (6-3).

Fritz converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th game (3-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They contested 51 points. Taylor was the one to win the set after conquering 9 more points than Nick (30-21). Fritz dropped 7 points on serve (23-7). on the other side of the court, the Australian conceded 7 points on serve (14-7).

Fritz had a favorable start in this set after breaking Nick Kyrgios in the 1st game (1-0). Taylor extended his lead after breaking Nick in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).

They played 47 points. Fritz conquered the set after winning 13 more points than Kyrgios (30-17). Fritz was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). In addition, on the other side, Nick conceded 14 points on serve (13-14).

 

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