“He’s been around long enough. He’s played a bunch of Slams, and I feel like he’s a clean ball-striker, too,” Brad Gilbert , who guided Coco Gauff to her first Slam glory, said about Taylor Fritz last year before his US Open final against Jannik Sinner. Now, a year later, Fritz returns to the ATP Finals not as a contender but as a constant, a top-five force built on grit and precision. Ranked fourth and riding six straight wins over world No. 3 Alexander Zverev, Fritz edges closer to elite territory, yet Sinner and Alcaraz still tower ahead. And as he readies to face Lorenzo Musetti at the ATP Finals, Gilbert once again finds himself awestruck by Fritz’s quiet fire.

Ahead of Taylor Fritz’s opening match at the ATP Finals, Brad Gilbert offered a thoughtful breakdown of the America

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