How US Open offers Taylor Fritz reminder of back-to-school days: ‘Oh, it sucks now’

Taylor Fritz can empathize with school kids across America. And they can certainly understand where he’s coming from when he thought back to being a kid and the time of year when he had to go back to school. The U.S. Open is synonymous with plenty of things, but one that sticks out at this time of the year is the return to school. While Fritz has long since moved past that time in his life, thinking back to it following his first-round win over fellow American Darwin Blanch, he had one overarching thought. “I was always pretty excited to go back to school after the summer, excited for the first week or two, and then, Oh, it sucks now, I don’t really want to do this,” Fritz said. Taylor Fritz competes in the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships inside Arthur Ashe Stadium at the