Fritz impresses with his walk-on before advancing at Wimbledon - ESPN

LONDON — A well-dressed Taylor Fritz impressed again, beating compatriot Patrick Kypson 6-2, 6-2, 7-5 to reach the third round at Wimbledon on Thursday.

Fritz's white blazer and NBA-style warmup pants for his walk-on at No. 2 Court drew attention, but his play wasn't bad either — he fired 19 aces and avoided getting pushed into a fourth set.

The sixth-seeded American, a semifinalist last year, emphatically pumped his right fist when he broke Kypson to convert his fourth match point.

Fritz also won his opener in straight sets and had worn a similar outfit with tear-away warmup pants — designed to easily unfasten as you pull them off in one tug.

«I took it off slowly in the first round. I kind of actually made a mess of it,» Fritz said in his news conference. «It's actually just a lot easier to just rip them off. I saw a video of Frances [Tiafoe] doing it. I was just trying to copy him today.»

Later, an equally dapper Tiafoe showed how it's done — earning applause for quickly pulling off the bottoms before his match against Jan Choinski. The 17th-seeded Tiafoe won 4-6, 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.

«I had a lot of momentum from the end of the third,» the American said in his on-court interview. «I just wanted to try to get an early break and take his soul a little bit, take his belief away, and that's kind of what happened.»

Also Thursday, both second-seeded Alexander Zverev and fifth-seeded Alex de Minaur recorded straight-sets victories.

Matteo Berrettini, who lost the 2021 Wimbledon final to Novak Djokovic, beat 20th-seeded Arthur Fils 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 on Centre Court.

Berrettini will next face wild-card entry Grigor Dimitrov, who eliminated 15th-seeded Jakub Mensik 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. Last year, Dimitrov was leading his