{"id":206626,"date":"2025-10-17T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:42:08","slug":"frances-tiafoes-coach-reacts-after-announcement-they-have-stopped-working-together-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206626\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe’s coach reacts after announcement they have stopped working together with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s been a very difficult 2025 for Frances Tiafoe on the ATP Tour. <\/p>\n

Two years ago, Tiafoe was sitting at a career-best number 10 in the world, but the past 12 months have been a real struggle for the American. <\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz praised Tiafoe<\/a> after beating him in the semifinal of the US Open<\/a> in 2024, and it was anticipated that he might kick on in 2025. <\/p>\n

Tiafoe has pulled out of a number of tournaments<\/a> recently and now he\u2019s decided to make a decision on his future participation on the tour for the rest of 2025. <\/p>\n

\"FrancesPhoto by Quality Sport Images\/Getty ImagesFrances Tiafoe makes announcement after ending 2025<\/p>\n

With some tournaments still left to play on the ATP calendar, it wasn\u2019t completely clear what Tiafoe would choose to do for the remainder of the year. <\/p>\n

However, now it\u2019s become clear as Tiafoe has announced that he\u2019s ending his 2025 early to focus on getting himself right physically and mentally for 2026. <\/p>\n

Tiafoe recently admitted he wanted to start competing with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> but that does feel like a long way off right now. <\/p>\n

On Instagram, Tiafoe posted: \u201c2025 season has come to an end early this year for the kid. It wasn\u2019t the season I hoped for but lots of lessons were learned on and off the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to give a huge S\/O to my team. I\u2019ve been with these guys for several years. We\u2019ve shared some incredible moments that I\u2019ll remember forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat being said I\u2019ve decided it\u2019s time for a change. I truly appreciate the love..energy\u2026passion and brotherhood. It\u2019s been a great ride and only bigger and better things for all of us ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcited for what\u2019s ahead for me and ready to put the work in. Thanks for all the love and support thru it all. The best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Witt responds after severing ties with Frances Tiafoe<\/p>\n

Tiafoe has worked with Witt since July 2024 but now the relationship has come to an end, with the two parties going in opposite directions. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is a very capable player on his day and clearly, he\u2019s not happy with the drastic drop off in his performance levels during 2025. <\/p>\n

It would appear that there are no hard feelings for Tiafoe and Witt, however, with the coach also taking to Instagram to confirm the news. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThanks, Big Foe, for the ride this last year and a half. Some things come to an end, but good memories, great times, and a friendship last forever. Thanks, brotha \u2013 nothing but love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frances Tiafoe statistics 2025Australian Open \u2013 R2French Open \u2013 QFWimbledon R2US Open \u2013 R3Indian Wells \u2013 R3Miami Open \u2013 R3Monte-Carlo Masters \u2013 R2Madrid Open \u2013 R4Italian Open \u2013 R2Canadian Open \u2013 R4Cincinnati Open \u2013 R4Shanghai Masters \u2013 R2<\/p>\n

Tiafoe is currently ranked at number 28 in the world rankings, and that is quite frankly very poor for a player with two Grand Slam semis to his name. <\/p>\n

Something has to change for Tiafoe, and the hope will be that he can return in better shape for the 2026 season. <\/p>\n

Tiafoe is a very popular player on the ATP<\/a> Tour and nobody will take any satisfaction from his drop off in form during the second half of 2025. <\/p>\n

With lots of United States players starting to achieve good results, Tiafoe will return next year looking to offer a timely reminder that he\u2019s still got what it takes to get to the business ends of big tournaments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover It\u2019s been a very difficult 2025 for Frances Tiafoe on the ATP Tour.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1308,9476,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-206626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-frances-tiafoe","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}