Who Is Taylor Fritz?
Taylor Harry Fritz born on October 28, 1997, is a professional tennis player from the United States. Guy Fritz and Kathy May gave birth to Fritz, the youngest of three boys.
His mother, Kathy May Fritz, was a top-10 player, and his father, Guy Henry Fritz, was the US Olympic Development Coach of the Year in 2016.
He is the great-great-grandson of Morton D. May and the great-great-grandson of David May, founder of The May Department Stores Company, which amalgamated with Macy’s.
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has given him a career-high singles ranking of world No. 13 on March 21, 2022, and a doubles rating of world No. 104 on July 26, 2021.
He has two ATP Tour singles championships under his belt, including a Masters 1000 victory at the 2022 Indian Wells Masters.
Fritz made his first ATP final appearance in only his third professional event, the 2016 Memphis Open. Only John Isner, another American, has reached an ATP final in fewer career tournaments.
He won a junior major singles victory in the 2015 US Open and finished runner-up at the 2015 French Open.
Taylor Fritz Net Worth
Fritz has an estimated net worth of $3 million and has earned more than $2.7 million in prize money.
Taylor Fritz Wife
After courting for nearly two years, he married tennis star Raquel Pedraza in July 2016 in California. Raquel gave birth to the couple’s first child, a boy they named Jordan, in January 2017.
Wimbledon, Taylor Fritz
He reached the quarterfinals of the 2014 Junior Wimbledon event in just a few years. Later the same year, in the 2014 Osaka Mayor’s Cup, he won his first Grade A competition.
Fritz advanced to the quarterfinals of all four junior Grand Slam tournaments in 2015, including the French Open finals, where he lost to Tommy Paul, and the US Open finals, when he defeated Paul.
This grand slam triumph allowed him to complete the year as the top-ranked boy’s junior tennis player, earning him the title of 2015 ITF Junior World Champion.
Taylor is the first American to hold this championship since Donald Young did in 2005 and Andy Roddick did in 2000.
He made his ATP Tour debut in Nottingham, where he obtained a wild card and defeated Pablo Carreo Busta in his maiden ATP match.
Taylor Fritz won the Australian Open.
After completing 2017 slightly outside the Top 100, Fritz had a strong start to the 2018 season, reaching two Challenger finals in January.
He returned to the Top 100 of the ATP rankings after reaching the final in New Caledonia, where he lost to Noah Rubin.
Following a defeat in qualifying at the Australian Open, he won his first Challenger title in two years in the inaugural event in Newport Beach, not far from his present home in Palos Verdes.
Taylor continued his excellent start by reaching the fourth round at Indian Wells, his first participation in the Round of 16 at a Masters tournament.
