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 chances he didn’t convert in the first two sets made the comeback climb just too steep.

Djokovic advanced to his absurd 53rd Grand Slam semifinal, beating Fritz 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 and will now face Carlos Alcaraz on Friday.

The Serb won just four more points overall Tuesday (130-126), but captured just about all the crucial points to frustrate Fritz yet again.

“To be honest, the fact that I was like 0-for-10 (on break points), that actually like almost sounds better for me than it really was, because that’s not counting how many times I had 15-30, Love-30, 30-all. I was just converting and playing these points just really poorly.

“Just bad decision-making, because I wasn’t playing as well as I wanted to,” Fritz said.

Fritz came into this matchup 0-10 lifetime against Djokovic, having won three of the 26 sets the two have played, but as Fritz said after his fourth-round win on Sunday, the first seven or eight times the two played, he simply wasn’t a good enough tennis player yet.

The Torrey Pines High School alum has played the best tennis of his career over the last two years, and if ever there was a chance to beat the 24-time Grand Slam singles champ, Tuesday figured to be it.

Night match, Djokovic not looking 100 percent this tournament, and Fritz not wasting any extra energy in the early rounds, having lost just one set in the first four matches, made many think this was finally his time to beat Djokovic.

But Djokovic, who has had some slow starts at this year’s Open, came out completely dialed in Tuesday, breaking Fritz the first chance he got and racing to a 3-0 lead in the first set. This was not the Djokovic who had breathing issues in his first round match, and who looked very vulnerable against San Diego’s Zach Svadja in the second round.

This Djokovic served big when needed, outhit Fritz in the baseline rallies, and didn’t let the crowd’s jeers bother him for the first two sets.

The Californian had five break points in the final game of the first set, with the 23,000 plus inside Ashe roaring before each one. But Djokovic saved them all, then won the set by outlasting Fritz from the baseline.

“The first three sets weren’t great,” Fritz said. “I think the level in the fourth set was probably the best level I played. He played a lot better in the fourth set as well.”

In the second set Fritz had many more opportunities, but couldn’t break through, as the 38-year-old Djokovic surged ahead by breaking at 3-all.

Finally, on break point No. 11 Fritz converted, to make it 5-all, but he then played a loose game and Djokovic broke right back, sucking the air out of the stadium in the process.

The owner of 24 major singles titles then served it out for a two-set lead, and the match felt over.

“Realistically, I can’t come out of those first two sets down two sets to love,” Fritz said. “That’s the thing that’s frustrating is that I don’t need to play that much better to make it happen, because I had all the chances I had playing how I was playing.”

Finally in the third, Fritz stirred. He broke Djokovic again to lead 3-1, after a game in which the Serb complained to the chair umpire Damian Dumusois about the crowd noise.

Fritz’s big serve started finding its mark in the third set as he smashed seven aces to keep Djokovic flailing in the return game.

In the fourth set, neither player faced a break point until the crucial 10th game. Fritz made a few errors and suddenly it was double match point for Djokovic.

But Fritz stood tall, outhitting Djokovic from the baseline and saving both, sending the crowd into a frenzy, as Fritz pumped his fist toward his coaches box.

But Djokovic, breathing heavily after each long rally now, earned a third match point, and a Fritz double fault ended it in 3:24.

“A lot of my weapons, my aggressive shots, were just not there,” Fritz said. “So it was tough for me to go out and take those points.”

Fritz hit 46 winners and 55 unforced errors Tuesday night, while Djokovic had 33 winners and 40 errors.