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Fritz youngest to come back and win it in
American in ATP that way and tough it out,
I’ll never forget that.”
Continued from Page 17 Fritz came out strong de-
spite having hotel security
The teenager, in the event called on him around 1:30
a.m. for making too much
as a wild card ranked noise at the ice machine
for a bath. He had six of his
145th in the world, will play 13 aces in the first set, but
he struggled with four dou-
Ricardas Berankis of Lithu- ble-faults in dropping the
second set. Fritz and Beck-
ania on Saturday. Berankis er broke each other twice
with the teenager saving
upset No. 3 seed Donald the crucial break point.
This week is proving a big
Young 7-6, 6-1, needing 80 lesson for the teenager
who upset No. 2 seed
minutes to advance. Steve Johnson on Thursday
night.
Three-time defending “I feel like I can compete
at this level,” Fritz said.
champion Kei Nishikori Nadal into semifinals in
Argentina; sets up match
faced Mikhail Kukushkin with Thiem
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
on Friday night. Fourth- (AP) -- Defending cham-
pion Rafael Nadal has
seeded Sam Querrey beat reached the semifinals of
the Argentina Open with
Japanese qualifier Yoshi- a 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory over
Paolo Lorenzi of Italy on
hito Nishioka 6-3, 6-4 in the clay in the Argentine capi-
tal.
other quarterfinal.
Becker, in his third quarter-
final at this event, had a
chance to close Fritz out
in the tiebreaker serving at
5-5. Becker hit a backhand
long on each of the next
two points, prompting the Taylor Fritz celebrates after defeating Benjamin Becker, of Germany, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (5) in a
quarterfinal at the Memphis Open tennis tournament Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, in Memphis, Tenn.
teenager to celebrate with
Associated Press
a fist pump and dropping
his racket. It followed Nadal’s defeat 22-year-old Austrian and
of Juan Monaco on Thurs- one of the game’s rising
“It’s incredible,” Fritz said. day. The Spaniard and stars. Thiem defeated Du- Nicolas Almagro of Spain
former world No. 1 will get san Lajovic of Serbia on Fri- faced No. 3 Jo-Wilfried
“I can’t believe it. Just an a tough test on Saturday day 6-4, 6-2. Tsonga of France, and No.
against Dominic Thiem, a In late matches Friday, 2 David Ferrer of Spain was
amazing feeling, especial- against No. 8 Pablo Cue-
vas of Uruguay.q
ly after the match I just had
coming back ... he was
serving for the match and
