NEW YORK – It was the name of a short-lived Netflix series on tennis, in which Taylor Fritz had a prominent role.

Break Point.

Those two words also represent enormous opportunity for a player, a chance to grab an advantage in a match, or add to it.

Tuesday night at the U.S. Open, those words represented enormous frustration for Fritz.

Facing the man considered the greatest player of all time, Fritz had so many chances to break serve in the first two sets, and give himself a chance to finally beat Novak Djokovic for the first time in 11 tries.

But he just couldn’t do it. Fritz went 2-for-13 on break points, and the one time the Rancho Santa Fe native did break, Djokovic broke right back, and that was pretty much the match.

Fritz made it close and almost forced a fifth set, but huge ch

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