‘More Openness for Players to Be Crazier’ – Taylor Fritz Advocates Unique Way of Making Tennis Attractive for Youngsters

Taylor Fritz, the American tennis ace, recently hit the headlines for slipping a title out of the 21 times Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal’s hands. Although many argue that he could do so only because Rafa was playing with a rib injury during the match. However, the stats from the tournament say otherwise. Fritz was strong from the first match of the Indian Wells. In fact, he took a straight-set victory against the Russian star Andrey Rublev in the semifinals.

Therefore, keeping in mind the American’s past performances and his current form, Netflix gave him a part in their upcoming documentary based on tennis. Further, Fritz’s girlfriend Morgan Riddle recently shared a glimpse of the ATP tour on TikTok to promote the documentary.

Taylor Fritz speaks about engaging young blood

TikTok is a platform that entertains young people of this generation. Therefore, with his girlfriend promoting the documentary on TikTok, Taylor was asked what he’d do to engage younger fans in tennis. To which he replied, “I think appealing to the younger generation and making tennis more kinda fun is probably the most important thing. It’s always been kinda my personal dream is to see tennis become more popular among younger kids.”

“Everyone goes to high school games like football games, basketball games no one goes to high school tennis game. You know, it would be cool to see that kind of hype around tennis grow.” He added.

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Thereafter, Fritz suggested, “One thing we can do on your is be more accepting. Any little thing can get someone fined or someone in trouble. I kinda want to see more openness for players to be crazier. That’s just kind of what the younger generation responds well to. Like the drama and the craziness. I think maybe letting players get away with a bit more would be exciting.”

Fritz in this year’s clay

After winning the first event of summer doubles, 24-year-old marched towards the clay court season. However, he hasn’t been able to leave an impact on any of the clay-based tournaments. Fritz started with Monte Carlo Masters where made up till the quarterfinals but couldn’t secure his seat in the last four of the tournament. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the Spanish tennis professional and eventual runner-up of the tournament, defeated him in three sets of 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Thereafter, he geared up to test his luck in the Madrid Open, but an unfortunate injury to his foot soiled his plans. Thus, Taylor was forced out of the Madrid Open and the Italian Open.

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After keeping out for weeks, the former World No.13 made a comeback in the ongoing French Open. However, on Wednesday, he failed to get past the second round and packed his bags.