“It’s not even what I saw today,” Fritz said. “It’s what I have seen for a while now. I said it a year ago when I watched him play, for how young he is, he just has all the tools.

“He can come to net, he can dropshot you, he can lob you, he’s incredibly fast, he has all the power, his forehand is good, his backhand is good.”

Fritz says there are myriad ways he can beat his opponents, which helps explain why he is the youngest No.1 in ATP history and already 18-1 on the season in 2023.

“It’s very rare to see someone so young so… developed in their game and not really have anything that they need to work on so much,” Fritz said. “He has tons of different ways to play, and he can incorporate tons of different game plans to play different players because he has so many tools to win a match. I think that’s something that I wouldn’t say any of those people had at such a young age. There is always – I guess – things that people need to improve on.”

Alcaraz compared to the Big Three

Fritz made interesting comments when he was asked to compare facing Alcaraz to facing the Big Three of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

The American says that he felt Alcaraz was more aggressive and smothering.

“I definitely felt like I had more breathing room against those guys than in this match,” he said. “I think that, you know, it’s different game styles. Novak will have these long rallies, but he’ll kind of slowly get you out of position and overwhelm me. I still feel like I can hang in these rallies for a long time and get more chances to attack.

“I think that I’d go back to the first couple games of the match. He just hits winners off of a lot of shots, winners and shots that hurt me off of a lot of shots that people normally aren’t hurting me off of – Definitely less.

“I just felt he was more offensive and pressed me a lot more.”