The 24-year-old Australian won his seventh career title and first at the ATP 500 level. He won his previous six titles at ATP 250 events, most recently last year at Atlanta.
It’ll be just the second all-American semifinal matchup in the 30-year history of the Mexican event. Fritz faced John Isner in 2020, when he was the runner-up.
Nick Kyrgios lost on his comeback from knee surgery 7-5, 6-3 to Chinese player Wu Yibing in the first round of the Stuttgart Open.
Paul need nearly 3 1/2 hours to beat the third-seeded Fritz in the semifinal round and became the third American to reach the final in Acapulco.
Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open championship returned him to a rather familiar spot on Monday: No. 1 in the ATP rankings.
Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz took his spectacular arsenal to the highest-ranked American man in Taylor Fritz and blasted into the semifinals with a 6-4, 6-2 victory at Hard Rock Stadium.
Djokovic extended his Australian Open winning streak to 27 matches, the longest in the Open era, which dates to 1968.
The No. 3-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas had been 0-3 in semifinals at Melbourne Park, but he finally went a step further to get to the second Grand Slam...
Tommy Paul reached his first Grand Slam semifinal and ended the surprising run of Ben Shelton by winning their all-American matchup at the Australian Open 7-6...
The 20-year-old from Florida pulled out a 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over J.J. Wolf in an all-American matchup.
There is a period of transition in men's tennis, a chance for new faces to make themselves known.
Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini defeated Tommy Paul and Jack Sock to secure a 2-1 win for Italy. They will face the winner of Germany vs Canada in the...
Earlier in the day, Frances Tiafoe had lost his match to Lorenzo Sonego. Italy is playing without its top two players Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini.
Sonego hit 17 aces during his Davis Cup match victory against Tiafoe.
Nick Krygios won last week in Washington for his seventh ATP Tour title. Daniil Medvedev won last week in Los Cabos, Mexico.
