{"id":412243,"date":"2023-02-11T01:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412243"},"modified":"2023-02-11T01:25:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:25:54","slug":"fritz-advances-to-semis-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fritz-advances-to-semis-in-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritz advances to semis in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Taylor Fritz reached the semi-finals at the Dallas Open after a labored 7-6 (9-7) 3-6 6-3 win against Marcos Giron on Friday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fritz fury \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Taylor Fritz books a ticket to the semifinals with a 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 victory over \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Marcos Giron. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DALOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DALOpen<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emirates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@emirates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdE5RMec1x\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tdE5RMec1x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Open (@DALOpenTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DALOpenTennis\/status\/1624244683588227072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>World number eight Fritz, who at 25-years-old is seeking the fifth ATP singles title of his career, allowed seventh-seed Giron only one break point opportunity for the entire match.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz himself only created two such opportunities, and further illustrating the closely-fought nature of the battle, Fritz edged the total point count 86-85.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz faces China&#8217;s Yibing Wu in the semi-final after the 23-year-old defeated 34-year-old French veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Yibing Wu became the first Chinese man to reach an ATP semifinal since 1995.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yibing Wu. First Chinese man to reach an ATP semifinal since 1995!<\/p>\n<p>After beating Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-4, the 23-year-old will take on top seed Taylor Fritz for a place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DALOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DALOpen<\/a> final.<br \/>What a week he&#39;s having! His smile says it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F7Vun0Sd4e\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/F7Vun0Sd4e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Biola Solace-Chukwu (@Beeorlicious) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Beeorlicious\/status\/1624275469016129539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The other semi-final will be an all-American showdown after J.J. Wolf upset second seed Frances Tiafoe 4-6 6-3 6-4, and 37-year-old John Isner proved too much for Ecuador&#8217;s Emilio Gomez in a 7-6 (10-8) 7-5 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Taylor Fritz reached the semi-finals at the Dallas Open after a labored 7-6 (9-7) 3-6 6-3 win against Marcos Giron on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17410],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He faces Yibing Wu - the first Chinese to reach semifinal since 1995, for a place in the final","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412243"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412243"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}