Taylor Fritz defeated fellow American Francis Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday night to advance to the semifinal round of the Mexican Open. (More Tennis News)
💎The fifth-ranked Fritz has a six-match winning streak agains🥃t Tiafoe. He advanced to face another American, Tommy Paul, in one of the semifinals.
It’ll be just the second all-American semifinal matchup in the 🎉30-year history of the Mexican event. Fritz faced John Isner in 2020, when he was the runner-up♌.
The winner of the Fritz-Paul match will become the third Ameri🔯can to reach the Mexican final. Besides Fritz, Sam Querrey won the tournament in 2017ꦛ.
Fritz i💙s in his second semifinal of the season and is trying to capture his second title after winning at Delray Beach.
In the other side of the bracket, Alex De Minaur bree💜zed past Taro Daniel▨ 6-2, 6-2 to reach the semifinals. The eighth-seeded Australian will face Hulger Rune, who moved on to the semifinal when Matteo Berrettini retired in the second set after falling behind 6-0, 1-0.
