By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday July 9, 2023
Frances Tiafoe, newly anointed member of the ATP’s Prime 10, expects so much from himself on the Grand Slams. That’s why he was bitterly disenchanted together with his efficiency this weekend, as he really feel in straight units to Grigor Dimitrov throughout Saturday and Sunday (the match was suspended resulting from rain on Saturday), 6-2, 6-3, 6-2.
Speaking up his probabilities as a participant that might go all the best way, Tiafoe was fast to critique his efficiency on Sunday after his third-round loss.
“I’m Prime 10 within the phrase, I performed like I didn’t have an ATP level,” he mentioned, based on TennisMajors.com . “It hurts man, I don’t actually know what so as to add.”
Tiafoe, who raised the bar for himself by reaching the US Open semifinals final September, and profitable his first grass-court title in Stuttgart earlier this summer season, known as his personal tennis “a catastrophe.”
“I had an incredible season to this point,” the 25-year-old mentioned. “Within the Slams I had a second week look so it’s unhappy. I performed horrendous right now, a catastrophe right now.”
Frances Tiafoe leaves Wimbledon with a bitter style in his mouth 👇https://t.co/UnvlJ6dEtK
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It has been a tricky Wimbledon for the American males – of the 13 that made the principle draw, solely Chris Eubanks has reached the spherical of 16. No.9-seeded Taylor Fritz blew a two units to like lead in opposition to Sweden’s Mikael Ymer within the second spherical, whereas Sixteenth-seeded Tommy Paul fell to Jiri Lehecka in 5 within the third spherical. Sebastian Korda, Ben Shelton and JJ Wolf additionally didn’t make the mark.
For his half, Tiafoe says that the strain of being a Prime 10 participant didn’t play a job in his loss.
“I’m already profitable in life,” he mentioned. “It doesn’t actually matter. I need to win a Grand Slam for me. Not for you, not for the media. It’s only a unhealthy efficiency right now.
Not a lot to say, I’m fairly down. Powerful to grasp. I’ve to cope with that. In tennis you bought to have brief recollections, I’ve obtained to proceed and see how I can bounce again.”
