Fritz beats Norrie to reach Stockholm quarterfinals

ByDavid Mitchell

The American Taylor Fritzfirst seeded, began his journey this Wednesday at the ATP 250 in Stockholm with a 7-5, 6-3 victory against the British Cameron Norrie to access the quarterfinals.

Fritzwho is seeking his second title of 2026, has 14 indoor victories this season. The 29-year-old qualifies for his eleventh quarter-final of the season and his fourth in as many weeks (Lyon final, Basel semi-final, Paris quarter-final).

Last week in Paris, he missed two match points against Carlos Alcaraz that, if converted, would have qualified Fritz for the ATP Finals.

Fritz’s next opponent will be the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic or the former world number 4 Holger Rune, who play tonight.

One of the surprises of the tournament was the Kazakh Aleksandr Shevchenko. coming from the previous one and who beat the second favorite and defending champion, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, in three sets and with a comeback, 6-7 (5), 6-4 and 6-3.

In other matches of the day, the fourth seed, the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo, beat the Italian Lorenzo Sonego 7-6 (2), 6-7 (7) and 7-5 after two hours and 53 minutes, while last year’s finalist, the Frenchman Ugo Humbert, easily got rid of the Croatian Borna Gojo 6-2 and 6-4.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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