Sep 24, 2025, 08:42 AM ET<\/p>\n
TOKYO — Frances Tiafoe<\/a> smashed his racket as he lost to qualifier Marton Fucsovics<\/a> in the first round of the Japan Open on Wednesday, while Denis Shapovalov<\/a> also suffered an upset loss.<\/p>\n The eighth-seeded Tiafoe struggled with his first serve in a 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 loss to Fucsovics and smashed his racket against the court surface just after the Hungarian sealed the victory with a forehand winner.<\/p>\n Tiafoe has slipped to 29th in the rankings. It was the fourth consecutive loss for the American after a third-round loss to Jan-Lennard Struff<\/a> at the US Open and defeat in both of his matchups against the Czech Republic in Davis Cup qualifying this month.<\/p>\n Fucsovics will next play either Jordan Thompson<\/a> or Brandon Nakashima<\/a> in the second round in Tokyo.<\/p>\n Seventh-seeded Shapovalov lost 7-5, 6-3 to Daniel Altmaier<\/a>, who goes on to play either Damir Dzumhur<\/a> or Aleksandar Vukic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 24, 2025, 08:42 AM ET TOKYO — Frances Tiafoe smashed his racket as he lost to qualifier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-179538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}