American tennis star Taylor Fritz ousted number four Alexander zif in four sets to reach his first career Grand Slam semi-final making history along the way numbered 12 seed Taylor Fritz Cruise passed number four seed Alexander zif in the quarterfinals of the US Open to book the first Grand Slam semi-final appearance on Tuesday I've had a lot of looks at Grand Slam quarterfinals over the past couple of years and today just felt different and a bullant Fritz said postmatch I really felt like it was my time to take it a step further Fritz 26 oued zif 7-6 7-2 3-6 6 to4 7-6 7 to3 for the first time in five career meetings this continues arguably the finest season of The Americans career Fritz reached the quarterfinals at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year in addition to reaching the fourth round at the French Open by beating Zev he became the first American man since Andre Agassi in 1999 with four grand slam victories against ATP top 10 opponents in a single calendar year he peaked in the ATP rankings last year at number five and reached the quarterfinals at the 2023 Us open now he can call himself a grand slam semi-finalist 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 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 Fritz will face the winner of fellow American Francis tifo and the Bulgarian Gregor demitro in the semi-final on Friday