{"id":60795,"date":"2025-08-11T06:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60795\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:13:04","slug":"frances-tiafoe-admits-one-area-of-his-game-where-hes-gone-backwards-this-year-compared-to-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60795\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe admits one area of his game where\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0gone backwards this year compared to 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Frances Tiafoe clinched his fifth win of the North American hard-court swing against Roberto Carballes Baena in his opening match at the Cincinnati Open. <\/p>\n<p>The US star is appearing in his third tournament since his second-round exit at Wimbledon, having featured at the Washington Open and the Canadian Open. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/frances-tiafoe-criticized-and-told-he-has-no-class-after-what-he-did-following-his-latest-match-at-the-canadian-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiafoe\u2019s campaign in Toronto<\/a> ended in the round of 16 after suffering a defeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/alex-de-minaur\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex de Minaur<\/a>, and he will look to go a step further at the second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> Masters 1000 event in the lead-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an up-and-down season for the world number 14, which he touched on after his triumph in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227101417-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Frances Tiafoe reacts during his second round match at ATP National Bank Open on July 30, 2025 at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto.\" class=\"wp-image-116417\" \/>Photo by Julian Avram\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesFrances Tiafoe reflects on his 2025 ATP season <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Tennis Channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/frances-tiafoe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiafoe<\/a> said: \u201cYeah, I mean, obviously, you know, I\u2019ve been a little bit more inconsistent than I was last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still want to pick up in that department, but, you know, I\u2019m getting better on all surfaces. I had my biggest run at a grand slam on clay this year, at the French, so that was super big.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, I\u2019m starting to get closer and closer to where I feel like I can be at my best, week in week out, and I\u2019m kind of figuring out what that looks like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGame style, preparation, I\u2019m trying to understand myself. And getting more excited to play week in week out, that\u2019s kind of the biggest thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut yeah, every year that goes by, I\u2019m closer and closer to where I want to be. And ultimately, around this time is where I want to be my best. And I feel like I\u2019m doing that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story of Frances Tiafoe\u2019s 2025 season so far<\/p>\n<p>In his first six tournaments of the 2025 season, Tiafoe failed to string consecutive wins together before reaching the final in Houston. <\/p>\n<p>He had a largely unsuccessful clay swing up until the French Open, where he advanced to the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n<p>Australian OpenRoland GarrosWimbledonUS OpenSecond RoundQuarterfinalsSecond Round\u2013Frances Tiafoe\u2019s results at Grand Slams in 2025<\/p>\n<p>In the grass season, he lost in the first round of Queen\u2019s and clinched just one victory at Wimbledon before bowing out to Cameron Norrie in round two. <\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe is back on his preferred surface now, and with a handful of wins under his belt already on hard court, he will look to make deep runs in Cincinnati and New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe clinched his fifth win of the North American hard-court swing against Roberto Carballes Baena in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,49,48,16006,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-60795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-frances-tiafoe","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}