{"id":458209,"date":"2023-09-04T18:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458209"},"modified":"2023-09-04T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:54:46","slug":"fritz-has-nothing-to-lose-against-djokovic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fritz-has-nothing-to-lose-against-djokovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritz has &#8216;nothing to lose&#8217; against Djokovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Taylor Fritz said he has nothing to lose but only to win from his upcoming US Open quarter-final match against Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz, who is No. 9 seeded in the tournament and currently the top-ranked American in the ATP rankings, has seven losses in seven matches against 23-time Grand Slam winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s beaten me seven times. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any other tennis player who&#8217;s done that against me, so hopefully now it&#8217;s my turn to win,&#8221; said the 25-year-old Fritz after coming through in three set with Swiss qualifier Dominic Stricker in the fourth round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taylor Fritz on possibly facing Novak Djokovic at US Open:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNovak\u2019s gotten me a lot. But I think one of these times I\u2019m gonna get him&#8230; At least I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crowd goes wild. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iXM0H7BklO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iXM0H7BklO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1698495762106093987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The last match between Fritz and Djokovic was about two weeks ago at the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati, when the Serbian won 6-0, 6-4.\u00a0 &#8220;I learned a good lesson in Cincinnati. I don&#8217;t want to make excuses, but it wasn&#8217;t my best day. I&#8217;m grateful though, because now I know which mistakes not to repeat. I think I&#8217;ll be in a much better position now, because I have nothing to lose. I don&#8217;t plan to do anything different, I will play my game. I believe that if I play at my best level, that will be enough for me,&#8221; explained Fritz, who is yet to lost a set in New York this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Taylor Fritz said he has nothing to lose but only to win from his upcoming US Open quarter-final match against Novak Djokovic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17410,4051],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17855,18177,1891],"acf":{"announce":"\"Hopefully now it's my turn to win,\" said the 25-year-old American","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\/458209"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458214,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458209\/revisions\/458214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458209"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458209"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}