USA got a super milestone thanks to Taylor Fritz

To find an American tennis player in the final of the ATP Finals, you have to go back to 2006, when James Blake was defeated by Roger Federer, but, 18 years after that match, Taylor Fritz will have the opportunity to restore glory to the United States of America. The finalist of the US Open, beating Alexander Zverev in an extremely hard-fought semifinal, conquered the final of the year-end Masters 2024.

The previous presence of an American tennis player in the final was that of Andre Agassi in 2003, also in that case defeated in three sets by the Swiss Maestro. To find a success of an American player at the ATP Finals, you have to go back 25 years and return to 1999, when Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi in an all-American final in Hannover. Today Fritz will try in a challenge that is anything but simple for him in the final against Jannik Sinner.

This season will bring Taylor from Monday to his best career ranking, ATP No.4. And he is already certain to end the year as number 4 in the world since he will surpass Daniil Medvedev and will be behind only Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev and Carlos Alcaraz.

Finally, there is another record to set for Fritz: in the year of his first Slam final in New York, he is also the first American tennis player to reach the final of the US Open and the Masters at the end of the year since 1999, when Andre Agassi did it.

1 – Taylor Fritz has become the first American to reach the final of the ATP Finals and the US Open in the same season since Andre Agassi in 1999. Quality. #NittoATPFinals | @atptour @ATPMediaInfo pic.twitter.com/BJkohgEO70

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At the press conference after beating the German and reaching his first final at the year-end Masters, the American said how the match against Sinner will be different from the US Open final, highlighting what were the key points of the match he just won.

“I think the key was playing the important…