He also became only the ninth pro tennis player in history to win multiple Challenger tournaments before turning 17.
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Taylor Fritz is something of a late bloomer in the game of tennis. This is despite the fact that both his father Guy Henry Fritz and mother Kathy May Fritz are former professional tennis players. But the fact that he has tennis in his blood means that when he did take up the sport, he was fairly good at it. His first ITF tournament came when he was aged 15. He showed plenty of promise and then three years later turned pro and was given a wildcard for an ATP event in Nottingham. Amazingly, he won his first-ever match on tour – and that win came against an established name in Pablo Carreno Busta. He turned pro after winning the junior US Open and quickly progressed through the ranks.
He also became only the ninth pro tennis player in history to win multiple Challenger tournaments before turning 17. That put him in very elite company; others to have achieved this feat include Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Bernard Tomic, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet, and Juan Martin del Potro. However, injury struggles in 2017 derailed his momentum. And it would not be until 2019 that he’d become a title winner in the pro circuit.
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Fritz has since finished as a runner-up on four seperate occasions. Despite that, he continues to impress and show growth as a player. 2021 saw him reach the semis at Indian Wells and also the quarters of the Paris Masters. As such, there is plenty of interest in his personal life – including his finances. Here we take a look at this salary, net worth and the like.
Taylor Fritz’s tennis coach right now is retired American professional tennis player Michael Russell. In August 2007, he rose to a career-high singles position of No. 60 in the world. As of November 2013, he held the record for the most singles victories on the USTA Pro Circuit with 23 victories. He rose to third place among Americans in the world during that month. Russell was ranked first in singles and doubles in the USTA Boys’ 16 rankings in 1994, and in the U.S. Boys’ 18-Under rankings in 1996. Before turning pro in 1997, he played for the University of Miami in 1996–1997 and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Rookie of the Year award.
Russell experienced knee problems for the majority of his professional career. He is perhaps best known for unexpectedly taking two-set leads over former Grand Slam champions in Grand Slam tournaments on two separate occasions before losing both matches. Russell faced the defending champion and eventual champion Gustavo Kuerten in the fourth round of the 2001 French Open (his best run at a Grand Slam). Russell led two sets to love, 5-3 in the third set, and had a match point, but Kuerten prevailed in five sets.
