Taylor Fritz disclosed an interaction he had with his coach after his Miami Open quarter-final in which he proved him wrong.
It has been a difficult 2025 campaign for the American who has yet to win a title and struggled for consistency.
But the 27-year-old has found his form in Florida and he has a strong chance of lifting his first Masters 1000 title since 2022.
Taylor Fritz was put under huge threat by Matteo Berrettini, and the pair pushed each other to the limit in two-hour and 44 minute three-set match.
I came off the court and my coach started to tell me that I didn’t hit a good spot on my serve at 6-5 and I said ‘you’re crazy, go watch it’”, he said.
“Obviously you might think the serve was not good because of how good of a return he hit. And I said no, I am not taking that right now from you like I missed my spot! I said go and watch it, it was two inches from the line.
I said ‘go watch it, pull it up’, I hit the serve two inches from the line and it was a good serve, he just cleaned it. We pulled it up and he confirmed and told me I was right.”
Taylor Fritz reflects on his six missed match points before beating Matteo Berrettini at the Miami Open
Fritz recorded one of his best wins of the season against Berrettini in Miami, and he overcame some stiff challenges.
The World number four had six opportunities to win the match before converting his seventh deep into the third set.
While that could have derailed him, Fritz was able to knuckle down and keep creating chances until he eventually won the match, and this gave him great confidence.
I think if a lot of those set points or match points were something I did extremely wrong, maybe it would have been tougher to get over,” she said.
“But I think in those big moments, it definitely is easier for me to get over when I feel like I didn’t do too much wrong. But even then I am still going to try and come back from it and recover.
“At the beginning of the third set I am still having thoughts about the shots I missed or what I could have done or just thinking I could have served the slowest serve wide and I probably would have aced him as he leaned.
“So I have to remind myself at the beginning of the third set ‘stop thinking about that’, literally just get it completely out of my head and move on.”