By Tennis Now | @TennisNow | Friday, January 31, 2025
Picture credit: Matthew Calvis
The day earlier than Valentine’s Day, Taylor Fritz has an vital Delray Seaside date.
Two-time Delray Seaside Open defending champion Fritz will play his first match within the quest for a historic three-peat on Thursday evening, February thirteenth not earlier than 8 p.m. on the Delray Seaside Stadium & Tennis Middle, the event introduced as we speak.
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Tickets are on sale now at DelrayBeachOpen.com for the ATP Tour event that runs February 7-Sixteenth.
If he wins the title, the fourth-ranked Fritz could be:
The primary participant to win the occasion 3 times within the event’s 33-year historical past
The thirty fourth man because the Open Period {of professional} tennis started in 1968 to win no less than one particular event three years in a row
The primary American man born after 1990 to three-peat at an ATP Tour occasion
After profitable his second straight title in Delray Seaside final February, Fritz went on to develop into the primary American man to achieve the US Open closing since 2006.
Fritz later was a finalist on the ATP Tour’s year-end championships to complete the yr ranked contained in the world’s Prime 5 gamers.