subscribe our channel to get daily Entertainment News Taylor Fritz tops Alexander vev at US Open to reach first slam semi as he watched one last errand forehand from his number four ranked US Open opponent land wide Taylor Fritz dropped his neon colored racket clenched both fists and screamed come on Fritz gathered himself and his equipment walked to the net for a hug with Alexander's V who twice was a grand slam runner up then stepped to the center of Arthur Ash Stadium spread his arms wide and yelled again come on after years of climbing the rankings of becoming the top American man in tennis of coming close to making a breakthrough at one of his Sports four most important events Fritz finally came through at home beatings ver of 7 to6 2 3-6 6 to 4 7-6 3 on Tuesday at Flushing Meadows to reach a major semi-finals for the first time it was the 12th seeded Fritz's fourth win over an ATP top 10 player in a major this season the most by an American man in one year since Andre Agassi won five in 1999 before this season Fritz was 0 to1 in Majors against the ATP top 10 Fritz a 26-year-old from California entered the day with an 0er to4 record in Slam quarterfinals now he has joined Francis tifo 2022 and 2024 US Open Tommy Paul 2023 Australian Open and Ben Shelton 2023 Us open as the only active American men with major semifinals appearances I've had a lot of looks at quarterfinals over the last couple of years and today just felt different Fritz told the crowd that supported him throughout the win I really felt like it was my time to take it a step further he will meet the 20th Seated tifo on Friday tifo Advanced over number nine Gregor dimitrov of Bulgaria when demitro stopped playing because of an injury in the fourth set Tuesday night tifo was leading 6 to3 7 to6 5 6 to3 4 to1 when dimitrov retired from the match it's cool I'm in the semis but I very much have the mindset of the job's not done Fritz said a question I got asked pretty much every time I lost in my quarterfinals was what's it going to take to go further and the answer I gave was always just keep putting myself in these situations and I'll become more comfortable in these situations and get better that's definitely what happened now the quarterfinals didn't feel like I don't know this big thing to me like it has been I guess in the past the fritz tiao semi-finals that could be crazy Fritz said before the matchup was decided is the first between a pair of American men at any major since 2005 when Agassi defeated Robbie jinei in New York no American man has won a grand slam singles trophy since Andy rodic triumphed at the US Open in 2003 the other men's quarterfinals will be played Wednesday number one Jan nicker versus number five denil Medvedev and number 10 Alex deor versus number 25 Jack Draper Fritz used his usual blend of big serving winning 20 of 21 points when his first first serves landed in during the fourth set and big forehands but he also was effective at the net winning 16 of 24 points when he pushed forward and returned well enough to accumulate 10 break points there's still work to be done but his transition game is getting better the fact he's seeing it pay off especially here at the US Open in some big points he's starting to buy into it and believe it said Fritz's coach Michael Russell specifically mentioning a volley that won a 24 stroke exchange to make it 5 to2 in the concluding tiebreaker it's good to see that's a big step that we've been really emphasizing for him to win at these bigger stages you can't just serve and be on the Baseline even though Fritz only converted two of those break chances it meant he constantly put pressure on Zev a German who made it to the finals of the US Open in 2020 and the french open this year