From a motivating message to the Wimbledon semis: Fritz’s sacrifice that leaves him close to the title in Wimbledon

Taylor Fritz became the first semifinalist of Wimbledon 2025. The American, who occupies the fifth place in the world ranking ATP, defeated the Russian Karen Khachanov (No. 20) 6-3, 6-4, 1-6 and 7-6 (4). In this way, he got among the four best of a Grand Slam tournament for the second time in his career. And all this, After a motivating self-message He wrote four years ago, when his reality was very different from today.

It is that after being eliminated in Wimbledon 2021, at the hands of Alexander Zverev for the third round, today Top Ten left Top 40 for the first time in two years. And with 23 years, his first tennis crisis appeared, which at that time had it far from the first places, with a single ATP title (won in 2019) and four lost finals. But that fall against the German began to sow a seed: that of redemption.

Through his girlfriend’s phone, Taylor Fritz wrote a note on the back bus, which his partner then shared through social networks. It was a motivation self-masonry that prayed: “No one in the whole world is yielding as bad as you, you are so fucking good, but 40 in the world they must put their damn things in order.”

Four Years Since Taylor Fritz Lost at Wimbledon, Dropped out of the top 40 and wrote A Note on His Girlfriend’s Phone To Hold Himself Accounts pic.twitter.com/olfomrxptq

– Bastien facan (@bastienfachan) July 2, 2025

After that kind of resurrection, the American became champion in the Masters 1000 of Indian Wells in 2022 and culminated that year with trophies in Eastbourne and Tokyo. Then he would accumulate six more glasses and would be used, in mid -October of the aforementioned season, among the ten best players on the planet. Anyway, despite the high and low, it was always a fixed among the ten best players on the planet.

The sacrifice and work done in recent times gave the fruit and Fritz was for the first time semifinalist of a Grand Slam in the US Open 2024, where it would end up being runner -up. Months later, another opportunity comes, but about the green grass. In the All England Club, Taylor will seek to give the Batacazo and be the first American to lift the trophy from Pete Sampras in 2000. Will it achieve it?

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