Taylor Fritz 🇺🇸 vs. Aleksandar Vukic 🇦🇺

🎾 ATP Washington 2025 – Round of 32 Preview

Taylor Fritz 🇺🇸 vs. Aleksandar Vukic 🇦🇺

📍 Washington, D.C. | 🗓️ July 24 | 🎾 Hard (Outdoor)

🧠 Form & Context

Taylor Fritz
🏆 Peak performance: Fritz arrives in Washington off the best run of his career—Wimbledon semifinalist and back-to-back ATP titles in Eastbourne and Stuttgart.
🎯 Surface supremacy: A 30–12 season includes dominant form on hard and grass courts. The quick, bouncy conditions in D.C. suit his first-strike, serve-forehand combo perfectly.
🇺🇸 Home comfort: He’s the No. 2 seed and a 2023 semifinalist here. Plus, he owns a perfect head-to-head (2–0) over Vukic, including a straight-sets win in the Eastbourne semifinals last year.

Aleksandar Vukic
🎢 Struggling for rhythm: Just 14–23 in 2025 and outside the top 100, Vukic has yet to find his footing this season.
💪 Occasional flashes: Five-set upset over Korda at the Australian Open shows his ceiling. Got past Mpetshi Perricard in R1 here with grit.
🔥 Hard court worries: Just 4–9 on the surface this season and facing a red-hot American in top form.

🔍 Match Breakdown

This is a clash between one of the tour’s most in-form players and a streaky, dangerous but inconsistent opponent. Fritz’s serve and forehand are clicking at a top-5 level, and he’s looked increasingly comfortable with his movement and court coverage.

Vukic will need to serve extremely well and redline his baseline game to keep this close. His flat hitting can bother players in rhythm, but Fritz has already solved this matchup twice. Expect Fritz to target the Vukic backhand, neutralize his serve, and dominate baseline exchanges with superior depth and angles.

The American’s mental game is also on point—he’s handled pressure situations well all season, especially in tiebreaks and closing sets. Vukic has the firepower to hang for a while, but he’ll need a near-flawless performance to seriously threaten.

🔮 Prediction

Prediction: Fritz in 2 sets — With momentum, confidence, and a 2–0 head-to-head advantage, this should be a controlled win for the American unless Vukic plays one of his best matches of the season.