Taylor Fritz Lost a Quarterfinal and His US Open Number Tripled

Infographic on US Open outright odds after the Sinner withdrawal on August 21, 2026. Sinner came off the board from +125, worth 44.4 points of raw probability. Alcaraz moved from +175 to +140, a gain of 5.3 points, roughly an eighth of what Sinner gave up. Zverev sits second at +300.

Taylor Fritz lost a quarterfinal on Friday afternoon in Ohio, beaten 7-6(9), 4-6, 6-3 by Brandon Nakashima, the 27th seed. On the same day his price to win the US Open more than tripled. Both of those things happened, and the second one had nothing to do with him. What happened instead was the Sinner … Read more