

What Time Will Taylor Fritz Play Against Buyunchaokete?
Fritz and Buyunchaokete are on the Day 4 Schedule at Delray Beach Open 2025 on Wednesday 12 February 2025. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Taylor Fritz, a 27-year-old American tennis player, is currently ranked World No. 4 and achieved his career-high ranking in November 2024. He became the first American man since Blake in 2006 to play in the Nitto ATP Finals championship match and finish inside the top 5 of the year-end rankings. At the 2024 US Open, Fritz made history by becoming the first American man to play in a Grand Slam final since 2009. He earned wins over players like Ruud, Zverev, and Tiafoe to reach the final.
Fritz also defeated No. 2 Nadal on his way to the 2022 Nitto ATP Finals semifinals. He had previously beaten Nadal in the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells final, becoming the first American men’s champion at that event since Agassi in 2001. In 2016, Fritz reached his first ATP Tour final at the Memphis tournament as an 18-year-old wild card, making him the youngest American finalist since the start of the ATP Tour in 1990. He has also had success in team events, winning the inaugural United Cup for Team USA in 2023 and helping Team World capture the Laver Cup in 2022 and 2023. Additionally, he earned a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics in men’s doubles with Paul.
Fritz has had great success at the Delray Beach event, winning the last two editions and currently being on an 8-match winning streak. He has a record of 16-1 in sets, including a victory over Kecmanovic in the 2023 final. He is only the third top-five player to participate in this event, following Raonic in 2017 and del Potro in 2019.
If Fritz wins this week, he will become the first man born in 1991 or later to achieve a three-peat at an ATP Tour event. Some other active players who have achieved this feat include Kei Nishikori at the Memphis event from 2014 to 2016, Stan Wawrinka at Chennai from 2014 to 2016, Milos Raonic at San Jose from 2011 to 2013, and Novak Djokovic in various events, including the Australian Open, Nitto ATP Finals, and Wimbledon.
Taylor Fritz’s opponent, Buyunchaokete, is a 23-year-old player from China. He is currently ranked World No. 69 and achieved his career-high ranking of No. 65 in December 2024. As a former World No. 5 junior, Buyunchaokete earned his first ranking point in January 2022 and broke into the top 100 in September 2023.
Buyunchaokete had notable performances on home soil, reaching back-to-back ATP Tour semifinals. He lost to Zhang in the first all-Chinese ATP Tour semifinal in Hangzhou and defeated Rublev, who was ranked No. 6 at the time, to reach the Beijing semifinals, where he fell to No. 1 Sinner. He made his tour-level debut at the 2022 Davis Cup and his ATP Tour debut at the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai as a wild card, earning his first career win over Kecmanovic in the first round.
In the Challenger circuit, Buyunchaokete has a record of 61-36, including three titles. He won the Seoul Challenger in 2023, the Wuxi Challenger in 2024, and the Granby Challenger in 2024. Andy Murray is his tennis idol, and he had the opportunity to play against him at the 2023 Surbiton Challenger, although he lost in straight sets. As a junior player, Buyunchaokete had a win over future top-10 player Rune at the 2019 Australian Open and reached the quarterfinals in boys’ doubles at the 2019 Roland Garros and 2020 Australian Open.
Buyunchaokete has a chance to achieve the biggest win of his career and reach the fifth ATP Tour quarterfinal of his career. If he wins, he would become the first Chinese quarterfinalist in the history of the event. He would also be the first Chinese man to defeat a top-4 opponent in the PIF ATP Rankings history, as he currently has a 0-14 record against top-4 players.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Fritz will win.
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