World No. 6 Taylor Fritz needed just an hour and 42 minutes to take care of business against Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti at the ATP Finals in Turin on Monday. In front of a packed and partisan crowd at the Inalpi Arena, the American put on a clinic of disciplined, aggressive baseline tennis, keeping his cool from start to finish to cruise to a 6-3, 6-4 victory and quiet the home fans in style.

Played on the hard courts of Turin, a surface that’s treated both players differently this season, the matchup tilted in Fritz’s favor from the start. Coming in as the favorite, the 28-year-old American finally showed what clicked this time. After three tough losses to the Italian, Fritz opened up on what really worked against Lorenzo Musetti and what finally turned things around.

After the match, Ta

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