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Rivals 2025: alcaraz vs. fritz

Recap this year’s toughest fights this year among the top 10 holes

November 26, 2025

To mark the end of another exciting season, atptour.com is allowing our annual “best of” series, which will showcase the most interesting competitors, matchups, comebacks, upsets and more. This week, we look at the best competitors of the year.

Lexus ATP Head2head clash across 2025 Cemed adred a proving bubling between Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz. After meeting twice before this season, the duo this year was recorded in the main tennis tournaments in the attractive kingdoms, from the Wimbledon semi-finals to the niffel natu.

ATPTORD LOM also recaps the Tour-Level Tussles between Alcaraz and Fritz this season.

Wimbledon SFS, Alcaraz d. Fritz 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (6)
The tension in Alcaraz and WIMBLEDOn’s Wimbledon Semi-Final Showdown reached its breaking point in the opening match. The Spaniard teetered on the brink of being forced to contest a fifth set when facing two set points at 4/6 for a fourth straight break, but rallied for four consecutive points to secure his back-to-back spot at SW19.

Alcaraz was riding a 24-match winning streak entering the wedding, and Fritz had just won nine straight, including the title that works in EastBourne in the season of such a court. The American could not extend those in the court of the court of the center of England, just as he expected that ALCARARAZ continued to defeat Alcaraz.

The spaniad shared playing from the base, pacing directly that triggers the draw and using a high second serve that keeps the fritz always looking back. ALCARAZ stepped up when it mattered most and parried punches in tight moments, like when he took the lead at the net when Fritz was threatened with his first set point of the fourth. In his second point set at 6/5, the American was left to deal with an inside error.

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Laverr Cup, Fritz d. Alcaraz 6-3, 6-2
Finally Fritz broke the code on Alcaraz, calling his first Lexus Atp Head2head against the Spaniard in four attempts, with a comfortable victory for Team World in San Francisco.

The Americans were fearless when they spoke, decided the base and played with all the changes and applied constant pressure on the European team Alcaraz by converting his 20 points. In the second set, Fritz went on to win the last four games to seal a memorable victory. The most important moment came in the opening game of the match, where Fritz started the only two points he faced in the entire match, according to Infosys ATP Stats.

“Three times I played Carlos, he broke me in the first game every time,” said Fritz. “Coming out of that first game was huge. I just made sure I didn’t think about myself.”

Tokyo Final, Alcaraz d. Fritz 6-4, 6-4
Just nine days after their clash in San Francisco, Alcaraz and Fritz stood across the Net again, this time at Kinoshita Group Japan’s inaugural Tenno tournament, where the world is ONE. 1 understand his revenge.

Alcaraz cemented his authority with Trademark Persopower and the title match on the court barrel of the ATP 500. Fritz took a medical time out at the end of the first set to receive treatment on his left thigh, and was later arrested after three second games. Struggling with the going, the American saw his chances of reclaiming the Tokyo crown, which he won in 2022, appear.

“I’m very happy with the level at which I played, with everything,” said Alcaraz, who also suffered from a left ankle injury in his first meeting to lift the medal from Thkyo Delut. “Starting the week with a bad ankle, and the way I came back from that, I’m really happy with it.”

Nitto atp finals robin robin, alcaraz d. Fritz 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-3
These two rivals are kept apart from their best last time match and the nitto ATP Finals. A confident, hard-driving Fritz carried the momentum for much of the first 90 minutes and held two straight break points at 2-2 in the second set, having already secured a commanding lead. After that, the No. 1 in the PIF rankings atp ancaraz turned tables in Turin.

The most important moment came with Fritz holding his first point of the second set. He had the upper hand in an exciting shootout, but Alcaraz moved forward – similar to his strategy down there when he scored a point against the fritz at Wimbledon – to place a backhand volley. Fritz had a chance to add to that rally, but chose to let the ball roll, a decision he later admitted, “I might have sent it into the air.” Alcaraz finally took over after 14 minutes, ending Fritz’s chances of an upset.

In an epic game of tug-of-war, Alcaraz and Fritz battle for base position, each taking risks to return and seeking their first chance to play offense. But in the end, Alcaraz went into lockdown mode with a clean third performance to survive.

“I was really relieved after the win because of what I went through during the game,” Alcaraz said. “I didn’t feel like I had the ball and I was at the beginning [match]but I’m really glad I found a way back. “