ROLAND GARROS

May 26, 2025

Taylor Fritz

Press Conference

D. ALTMAIER/T. Fritz

7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1

THE MODERATOR: Taylor, tough one today. Can you walk us through the match. What do you think, if anything, was missing specifically?

TAYLOR FRITZ: It's kind of what's been going on a bit lately. I think I'm playing generally fine. It's just a lot of important points, I just am like playing horrendous tennis on a lot of the important points.

When I'm break point down, or I've got looks on his serve, like Love-30, 15-30, 30-All, break point. All the pressure, important points... I don't know what's going on. I'm finding ways to just play the worst point possible.

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. You said the other day you were 100% physically. I didn't believe you when you said it actually. I know why you said it. How did you feel out there today physically? Is there any sort of spill-over? When you've been struggling physically for a couple months...

TAYLOR FRITZ: It's really strange. I feel like since between Rome, Geneva and here, my movement on court is really bad. I don't know what's going on. A lot of times when I'm sliding, I'm off balance, I'm not timing it correctly. I don't know. I'm getting wrong-footed a lot, slipping a lot.

Funny enough, it feels like Madrid, feels like the only time this whole claycourt season, the first one, is when I felt I was actually moving well on clay.

Physically, I don't really feel that bad. For how I've been most of this year, I feel good. I misjudged, for sure, earlier in the week the level my ankle was at. I rolled it. I rolled it in Geneva. Because it felt good for the rest of the match, I didn't think it was that big of a deal.

It doesn't feel great. Again, it's definitely not the reason why I lost today.

Q. You played so much tennis late last year, making deep runs at a lot of big tournaments. If it's at all a blessing to have a little more rest time? I know you want to be playing and winning more. But some sort of catch-up. Olympic year last year.

TAYLOR FRITZ: I think with it being an Olympic year last year, I am excited to kind of have a longer US Open Series and also be very prepared for the Masters. I lost really early in both the Masters pre US Open Series last year. I'm excited to have a longer US Open Series, be prepared for Washington and all those tournaments.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't feel like my off-season was almost too short or anything. I showed up at the start of this year playing what I thought was really good tennis. I was super locked in, ready to go. Australian Open as well felt good.

For me the biggest issue has just been the injury that came after Australian Open, before Dallas. It caused me all kinds of problems.

Q. How much do you think this is a clay issue rather than a more general issue? Ankle issue aside, do you think stepping on grass or a different surface that you feel you know more, it's going to get a bit better?

TAYLOR FRITZ: I'm hoping. I mean, the fact that the last three weeks I feel like really awkward moving on the clay, which normally I don't. I don't feel I feel very uncomfortable or clay normally. Hopefully that will go away with the surface.

The fact that I'm not just converting big points, not playing big points well, the only way to get rid of that is have a match or a couple matches where that just doesn't happen and I perform well on some of those points. Once it's gone, it's gone. I'll never think about it again.

That's the thing. It's tough. It's not something you can really fix in practice. I felt great about my game in practice. Overall I don't think I'm playing bad 90% of the match by any means. In any of the matches I played, by the way. The match last week in Geneva, the match just now, I think for 90% of the match I'm playing normal. It's the 10% which ultimately decides the tennis match, the really big points where it actually matters.

I think the first three sets of the match today was a pretty basic, routine, standard match for me. The only difference is normally I convert some chances, save some chances where I'm down break point. The very least I'm up two sets to one.

It's just not happening. It's just really a poor level from me on the points in the match where I need to be playing my best.