The lads’s draw additionally appears open after shock defeats for 24-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic and reigning French Open and Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz.
Australia Open champion Jannik Sinner and Daniil Medvedev, who received the title in New York in 2021, are within the prime half of the draw, leaving Fritz, Zverev, Tiafoe and Dimitrov within the backside.
Tiafoe, seeded twentieth this yr, reached the semi-finals in 2022, the place he misplaced in 5 units to Alcaraz, whereas twelfth seed Fritz has not progressed from any of his 4 Grand Slam quarter-finals to this point.
There has not been an American winner of the US Open males’s singles since Andy Roddick in 2003.
“Previously, I’ve been very, very excited, to make quarter-finals at Slams,” Fritz mentioned.
“I’m on the level now the place I’m nonetheless completely happy to make them however I wouldn’t be proud of it ending right here.
“I’m on the level the place I really need greater than that.”
His opponent, Germany’s Zverev, reached the ultimate of the French Open this yr and at Flushing Meadows in 2020, however was crushed by Fritz at Wimbledon this yr.
“[Taylor] performed a tremendous event at Wimbledon,” Zverev mentioned.
“Each time I play Taylor, it’s a tricky battle, so I’m anticipating nothing much less, and hopefully will probably be entertaining.”