Taylor Fritz overcomes Frances Tiafoe in five sets: US Open semi-final analysis

there you go and he's done it yeah with a nice uh great win I mean regardless of kind of what we were talking about earlier that you know TFO was maybe even the better player for the first three and a half sets I think Jake also said it in the chat um he still did very well here like to kind of managed to stay emotionally more solid than Francis game-wise obviously very reliable as usual and yeah just didn't really let this get to him at all unlike Francis yeah yeah and I don't think it was a sort of great start from Fritz after that first set and and maybe you know he was looking a bit not quite his best but then yeah he was able to win that second set and I felt that was really important for him and then I think yeah he just yeah he's just he's just a more solid player and like even when too was playing you know he had some brilliant points and he was playing some excellent points but you know I felt like a lot of those rallies where Fritz was just able to hang in there and keep the point going and he eventually started to come out on those in those exchanges and especially like was like the fourth set we had some really big rallies there he he won that set and yeah unfortunately for tifo he just couldn't keep up he just faded physically and in his tennis so yeah bit of Shame for him he he looks quite upset understandably but um yeah I think it was a Fritz you know he's been top 10 even top five for a while so you know he really was the favorite at wasn't he coming into this match and he showed why yeah I mean t will definitely be super disappointed because well he's just going to know that he didn't lose it because he was worse really or something he just lost it like mentally in the most important moments and and obviously uh Fritz deserves a lot of credit for hanging in there and by the end he was just totally dominating but yeah Francis will not be leaving the court tonight thinking oh yeah I just got out played but rather that um well he got super tied in these last games of the second four set it was clear the four five five six games were just completely different from him there of attitude energy overall like I think the the contrast between their um even like ways of expressing themselves on the court and kind of the temp temperment like they were really coming out and today the the more stable fre game fr's mental side of the sport as well like it definitely prevailed over the the bursts of energy that Francis can bring and uh yeah let's just also talk for a minute about the final between sin and Fritz bra he was asking you for a prediction and in how many sets and yeah just in general um after today maybe that the the today's performance from Fritz kind of impact your um view on the potential Final in any way I still think that siners is going to win the final um fretz will have to come out and play like an extremely strong game not only you know with his tennis but you know mentally if he's going to get a victory over Center I think I just don't think that he's going to be able to handle um you know there's just how strong CER is um on the Baseline game he you know I just imagine that C's just going to come out on top more often than not and yeah perhaps maybe if CER has got some like physical issues that might allow uh Fritz to to to get in there you know maybe if it goes to a fifth set but um personally I I feel like that it's Center's going to be fairly happy to be able to to be able to play for it in a grand sem final what do you think yeah pretty much uh I mean Taylor definitely kind of impressed me with just not being overwhelmed by the occasion whatsoever today that's good for him like that's something that maybe tells you okay final a final is different but he's able to like kind of keep these thoughts away and and yeah just play his good stuff but yeah I just don't know if that good stuff is really enough um as I said earlier I mean he is pretty predictable with along with that reliability this is probably a match where he need to come out and go for it a bit more uh and maybe his ability to do it will be kind of the most important part here and whether he is able to kind of push himself and um yeah just make Yanik work for it in a way that maybe the Italian won't be expecting for now I mean all I can say is that I don't really expect him to win um as you said maybe there's some potential physical issues sometimes for for Yanik um just not I'm not even saying about the left wrist but like most of the Season he's had issues with endurance but yeah if if that happen since Maybe Taylor can Outlast him maybe again just on the mental level he can be kind of stronger it's possible I think but then again of course it's a bigger match for him even than it is for Yanik so that could be very well neutralized by that but yeah in in the long run I mean quality-wise there's not that much that he can really grab there I think it's a common issue for a lot of players like Fritz like I don't rublev against sinner where like they just cannot go you you cannot go blow for blow right now with Yanik because he just has the best shots on the planet and if you can mix it up a bit more if you can be I don't know maybe take time away like some players can yeah and then you actually might have a shot so so yeah I think fre three will have to go out there and do something Bal whereas today it we still had him in the comfort zone sort of for most of the match yeah exactly the way he W today is you know being the more solid player the more stable player overall but he's going to have to come up with something extra against yanic Center he's not just going to be able to yeah yeah so but yeah it I don't really see it being we're talking about maybe if it went to a fifth set I I would imagine that Center probably wins in in three or four sets that's probably what I I would say but you know let's see maybe Fritz can you know if he gets some success early on maybe he gets the first set he's got that crowd on his side he'll start peing and you know tennis is funny sometimes it doesn't always go the way you expect it to so and yeah bra they actually have avoided each other quite for quite a while I mean only two matches both in Indian Wales 2021 and 23 and given how consistent they have been over the last two seasons both of them it's kind of wild that they're only playing right now uh but yeah haven't played each other since March 2023 um yeah all right I guess that's I guess that's going to be it then um thank you Eddie for the stream it was quite wild for me to watch this from 2 am to 5: a.m more or less but um certainly had fun the Americans delivered with another good match I guess it's also going to be mentioned in like the well you know Le less good than Francis against B I guess but also one of the matches of the tournament and um yeah as usual keep subscribing guys 10K is still right around the corner so hopefully you can get your support on that don't forget to sign up of your famous catchphrase what's my famous catchphrase ah it doesn't really matter or like it doesn't matter where's the equivalent of vamos in Polish I mean IG guys is using yasda uh that's pretty that's pretty okay uh we can also say like I don't know Davi or whatever DAV is is also the same in Russian um but yeah e guys is saying yasda so I think we can just kind of say the equivalent of of vamos would be would be yasda any final words no just uh I'll be looking forward to the match and just yeah see if uh cner can make it a a second slam title or a first for an American since uh how many years is it since 2003 so yeah 21 uh the Americans will be be old enough to drink pretty much if if Taylor gets this title as it would be exactly 21 years after NY Ric when the 2003 US Open and um yeah all right if if that's the case then uh thank you guys again in the chat and yeah we we of course will have streaming for the women's final and for the men's final um I probably going to be on at least one of them maybe even both uh we'll see and uh yeah see yeah guys thanks guys if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit that like button don't forget to subscribe and click that notification Bell so you don't miss out on all things tennis