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Do we like Taylor Fritz?

Our score: 8 out of 10. No harmful words or acts turned up, plus real kindness, but the record is short on causes beyond one big donation.

Taylor Fritz is a Californian tennis player who has been a fixture in the world's top ten in recent years. He turned up on the radar of this page mostly because American tennis stars keep getting dragged into culture-war questions, and he's not a bloke who goes looking for them.

On the flip side, in a late-2022 interview he said an openly gay player on tour would be accepted, and called it odd that there are none. He said it would be “totally normal and I think people would be accepting.” That's a decent thing to say from a spot where a lot of blokes would dodge it.

When asked about Trump and the state of the US at the 2026 Australian Open, he ducked it. Sports Illustrated reported he put his head in his hands, said there was a lot going on, and said he'd rather not because he expected to be taken out of context. Where you land on that depends on whether you read it as sensible caution mid-tournament or as dodging, but it isn't harm.

The spats are small beer. In 2025 he deleted a joking Instagram comment about João Fonseca's highlights, and the backlash got big enough that he said at his press conference it was a joke and he didn't care about the criticism. In January 2026, when Coco Gauff copped heat over comments about American fans, he replied on X backing her, saying people always want to take things the worst way.

The good stuff is real. In January 2025 he pledged his first-round Australian Open prize money, about US$82,000, to Los Angeles wildfire relief, saying it was the least he could do. No court cases, regulator findings or credible allegations against him turned up in our searches.

The honest gap: the record is thin on anything beyond tennis, with no campaigns, causes or political statements of his own to weigh, good or bad. That's why he's a solid eight rather than a gushing ten.