Taylor Fritz Explains What Makes Jannik Sinner so Unstoppable

Taylor if you would your thoughts on the match yeah it was a it was a really tough match for me I think uh I had a you know a plan of of what I wanted to do going out but uh a lot of I mean some parts of it I did well and a lot of parts of it I um I didn't definitely didn't I guess hit the ball as uh as well as well as I expected to and that's something that's big if I wanted to just you know go back and forth and ball strike with him cuz he's such a such an amazing ball Striker and uh yeah I feel like I served improved the serve a lot in the second set the first set my serve was was really struggling and then uh third set started to kind of put it together a bit more with just hitting the ball hitting hitting my forehand a little bit better put my myself uh put myself in a good position to win the third but uh just I mean he played he played a good game when I I went to serve it out but yeah I mean that's kind of just how it goes when you're I mean imp playing the you know he's the best best player in the world right now my plan a is not working the the plan B that I fall back on you know would normally be just like bringing everything in being a little bit safer uh grinding it out and that you know that works along with my serve against some other you know a lot of other players but against him when I tried to kind of bring it down not be as aggressive then he's just gonna uh he's going to bully me a little bit too much so I you know it it was tough that I guess my plan a wasn't wasn't really working for me until like you know the third set I started to kind of get it going thank you one question each Brian Brian Lewis New York Post I'm curious from I mean when you play such an emotional and long semi-final I'm curious did Friday have any impact on today and if so was it more physical and likey or was it more emotional having to recover from that I I don't really think I don't really think it had too much of an impact I think my body didn't feel like amazing maybe yesterday but I mean like we're in the we're six matches in it's the finals of the slam like I I don't really expect to be feeling like fresh you know I I I saw you know all things considered I think my body felt felt fine and mentally I think honestly I thought it was a good thing I I was uh very I guess nervous going into the semi-final and I didn't feel anywhere near as nervous going into to this match as as as I did um in the semis so I thought emotionally uh you know it's obviously the US Open final I want to win it's it's it's a it's a really big moment but um I felt like emotionally I was going to be okay because I knew it wasn't going to be as bad as I was before my semi-final match and I found a way to get through that Charlie um France saying the other day how different it feels now how much more open it feels and that this tournament has really like reinforced that I just wondered I mean compared to like the big three P I just wondered how you feel like going forward I guess like how much more confident or how much more open it feels now yeah I mean OB I mean obviously like carlosa Noak and you know some people lost early on in this tournament so it really opened up the draw a lot and um you can only really beat who's who's in front of you but I I mean I think it's really positive for me and I cuz I I I don't feel like at any specific point in these two weeks I don't feel like I was playing like amazing tennis I guess I feel like I was I mean playing solid like nothing I guess special like I feel like I'm haven't been hitting my backand as as good as I'd like to I I haven't been serving as good as I'd like to luckily I can still get away with with it and hold but maybe I mean maybe maybe it is a bit more open I don't think you have to I don't know play unbelievable to go deep in tournaments and contend like I said it's different like Novak and and Carlos lost you know I would have had to play a really really great match if I happen to play Noak somewhere else in the draw but yeah I mean I think that you know you can find yourself a little deeper in the draws like quarterfinals and stuff if you just play solid tennis I still think to beat the top guys you need to you know you need to bring your your best game Howard Taylor um excuse me it had been a little bit of time since you had played Yanik um is he has he improved in that span and if so are there specific things you you could point to that make it feel more challenging more difficult against yeah I mean I'd say he's definitely improved a little bit since I beat him in straight sets at inds in 2021 um yeah he the biggest Improvement by far is is his serve if I'm going to go back from the because I played him in in 20 I played him in last year in un wells and he had already improved to serve I think from then I don't think there's that I don't think the Improvement is like a ton I think that's he was I think he was very very good at that point and he had just kind of been injured pulled out of a lot of tournaments when he was already like deep into it so like at that time he was ranked like I think outside the top 10 maybe like I got kind of a tough draw was the top eight seed and I had to play I had to play him but uh I think at that at that point he was very close to you know he improve now with confidence and winning but I think he was very close to the level um at that point he just had yet to show all of the the results because after that he had a I mean he went he lost to Carlos that week won Miami the next week was you know unbelievable all of last year and starting this year as well so I think that was kind of like the start of it um if I want to go back to like the 2021 Indian WS uh yeah I mean the serve and the movement massive improvements um I could find myself in a lot of a lot of return games just off of his first serve I felt like I could get myself in points off of his first serve every time and then it was much easier to hurt him from the ground as well so he's much faster a lot better out of the corners and his his serve is his serve is very good now all right please turn off your devices Larry understanding that the match didn't end all that long ago can can you appreciate what you've done in this tournament can can you define this tournament as a success or do you have to wait a little while put into context not not yet I there's obviously a lot of like a lot of positives and when I when I get some time to like cool down you know then it's like I'll be you know I'll be happy about the fact that I that I I made it to the finals and and stuff like that but right now it's it's no I'm I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty just disappointed in in uh how like just a lot of a lot of things on the court how I how I played how I hit certain shots it it it sucks and I'm not and I'm not saying like that it necessarily would have made a difference I don't know if it would have but I just would have like to have played better and and given myself a better chance so it's it's you know it's really disappointing right now I feel like I I uh I don't know I feel like the fans obviously American fans been wanting a a men's Champion for a long time and I I just I don't know I'm I'm pretty upset of with how I how I play it and I I feel like I uh I I don't know I feel like I almost let let a lot of people down there