However, he was unable to continue this form into the grass court season, with Tiafoe losing in the second round of Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, as he looks to put that behind him, Tiafoe will return to hard courts ahead of the US Open<\/a>, which is his best performing Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n Tiafoe<\/a> is beginning his North American hard court swing at the Washington Open<\/a>, the tournament where he made his ATP Tour<\/a> debut in 2014 and is making his ninth appearance this year.<\/p>\n The world number 11 achieved his best result in the American capital last year, reaching the semifinals before losing to eventual champion Sebastian Korda, who is unable to defend his title due to injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n When speaking in his press conference<\/a> ahead of beginning his singles campaign, Tiafoe was asked about what is different about this tournament for him compared to others.<\/p>\n In his response, Tiafoe admitted that he sometimes found it \u2018weird\u2019 how excited people always are to see him at the Washington Open.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, a lot of American tournaments for me for the last few years felt the same,\u201d said Tiafoe. \u201cWhen I walk on the grounds, people are ultra excited.<\/p>\n \u201cBut here, it\u2019s just weird. Everywhere I go, it\u2019s like a long homecoming. I know everyone from security and everyone and staff for so long, and everyone\u2019s so excited to see me. <\/p>\n \u201cA lot of \u2018I\u2019m proud of you\u2019 and \u2018Keep going,\u2019 and kids and stuff. A lot of love like that. But yeah, I mean, just get bulldozed everywhere I go, which is kind of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n Frances Tiafoe\u2019s potential draw at the Washington Open<\/p>\n Tiafoe and Ben Shelton<\/a> have already been eliminated from the doubles tournament, losing their first round match to the Australian pairing of Matthew Ebden and John Peers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n However, both still remain in the singles draw, with Tiafoe receiving an automatic bye to the second round as the sixth seed.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old will begin his campaign against the winner of the match between Quentin Halys and Aleksandar Kovaecevic.<\/p>\n Washington OpenFrances Tiafoe\u2019s Potential DrawFirst RoundReceives a bye as the sixth seedSecond RoundQuentin Halys\/Aleksandar KovacevicThird RoundFlavio Cobolli (9)\/Yoshihito NishiokaQuarterfinalBen Shelton (4)\/Gabriel Diallo (15)\/Fabian Marozsan\/Mackenzie McDonaldSemifinalTaylor Fritz (1)\/Andrey Rublev (5)\/Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (12)\/Lorenzo Sonego (16)FinalLorenzo Musetti (2)\/Holger Rune (3)\/Alex de Minaur (7)\/Daniil Medvedev (8)<\/p>\n One of the main threats in Tiafoe\u2019s quarter is Flavio Cobolli, who could be a dark horse for the US Open<\/a> after a breakout season in 2025.<\/p>\n His doubles partner Shelton<\/a> could be a potential quarterfinal opponent for Tiafoe, with the likes of Taylor Fritz<\/a> and Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> also standing in the way of a first Washington Open title.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe is one of the biggest stars on the ATP Tour, particularly during the North American hard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,15511,99,428,20552],"class_list":{"0":"post-29591","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-washington-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591","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=29591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Frances](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2226392419-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesFrances Tiafoe on what he finds weird about the support at the Washington Open<\/p>\n