{"id":14557,"date":"2026-05-10T00:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/14557\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:58:19","slug":"coco-gauff-brutally-exposes-frances-tiafoes-rome-restaurant-stunt-as-stunned-players-mock-his-bold-sunglasses-choice-international-sports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/14557\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff brutally exposes Frances Tiafoe\u2019s Rome restaurant stunt as stunned players mock his bold sunglasses choice | International Sports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/130979012.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Gauff brutally exposes Frances Tiafoe\u2019s Rome restaurant stunt as stunned players mock his bold sunglasses choice\" title=\"Coco Gauff hilariously teased Frances Tiafoe during the 2026 Italian Open after he wore sunglasses inside a Rome restaurant. Speaking on Tennis Channel, Gauff said players laughed at Tiafoe\u2019s fashion choice, but he confidently ignored the jokes. Tiafoe later responded on Instagram with a playful message. Both Americans are also continuing their campaigns at the Italian Open this week.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Coco Gauff hilariously teased Frances Tiafoe during the 2026 Italian Open after he wore sunglasses inside a Rome restaurant. Speaking on Tennis Channel, Gauff said players laughed at Tiafoe\u2019s fashion choice, but he confidently ignored the jokes. Tiafoe later responded on Instagram with a playful message. Both Americans are also continuing their campaigns at the Italian Open this week. Coco Gauff and Frances Tiafoe gave tennis fans a funny moment away from the court during the 2026 Italian Open in Rome. While speaking on Tennis Channel, Gauff shared a story about Tiafoe showing up at a restaurant wearing sunglasses indoors. The comment quickly became one of the lighter moments around the tournament, especially after Tiafoe answered back on social media. The American WTA star joked that Tiafoe acted \u201clike LeBron\u201d because of the way he carried himself when he walked into the restaurant. According to Gauff, the other players also teased him for the look, but Tiafoe did not seem bothered at all. Later, the ATP star reposted Gauff\u2019s comments on his Instagram Stories and jokingly replied, \u201cIt be yo own people.\u201d The exchange came during a busy week for both Americans at the 2026 Italian Open, where they are competing in the ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p>Coco Gauff says Frances Tiafoe got teased by players after restaurant appearance in Rome<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on Tennis Channel, Coco Gauff explained how the funny moment happened. She said Frances Tiafoe walked into a restaurant in Rome and suddenly put on sunglasses indoors, leaving everyone confused. Gauff then openly laughed about it during the interview.\u201cThis is like two days ago. We were in a restaurant and he walked in and he put on shades, and I was like, \u2018why are you putting on shades?\u2019 So I make fun of him because he thinks he\u2019s like LeBron like the way he talks and stuff, but it\u2019s Foe so if anyone can do it, it\u2019s Francis. But he definitely got crap from every single player for that and he didn\u2019t care, so that\u2019s what I respect,\u201d Gauff told Tennis Channel.Frances Tiafoe later reacted in a relaxed way instead of taking the joke seriously. He reposted the clip on Instagram Stories and wrote, \u201cIt be yo own people,\u201d showing there was no bad feeling between the two American stars.Away from the funny exchange, Coco Gauff also started her Italian Open campaign strongly. The World No. 3 defeated Tereza Valentova 6-3, 6-4 in the second round. After the win, she repeated a famous Rafael Nadal quote while talking about momentum before the French Open.\u201cIt would be great to have a deep run here, to have momentum before Roland Garros. But you know, the Rafa quote\u2026 \u2018What happened in Madrid happened in Madrid. We are in Rome. Then we\u2019ll be in Paris.\u2019 I live by that quote,\u201d Gauff said.Gauff is now set to face Solana Sierra in the third round. Meanwhile, Frances Tiafoe, the No. 20 seed, will begin his men\u2019s singles campaign against Ignacio Buse after receiving a first-round bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff hilariously teased Frances Tiafoe during the 2026 Italian Open after he wore sunglasses inside a Rome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9739,10662,17,10660,9028,27,10661,4517,8962],"class_list":{"0":"post-14557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rome","8":"tag-2026-italian-open","9":"tag-atp-masters-1000","10":"tag-coco-gauff","11":"tag-frances-tiafoe","12":"tag-roland-garros","13":"tag-rome","14":"tag-sunglasses-indoors","15":"tag-tennis-players","16":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}