{"id":94434,"date":"2025-07-26T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94434\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:48:18","slug":"frances-tiafoe-states-what-he-finds-garbage-and-weird-about-the-canada-open-ahead-of-next-weeks-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94434\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe states what he finds ‘garbage’ and ‘weird’ about the Canada Open ahead of next week’s event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Frances Tiafoe is currently in a portion of the tennis season he enjoys \u2013 the North American hard court swing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 27-year-old thrives on playing in front of his home fans and he commenced this section of the year at the Citi Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following his quarter-final exit, Frances Tiafoe<\/a> will now turn his attention to the ATP Canadian Open<\/a>, which will be hosted in Toronto.<\/p>\n

But ahead of competing in Canada, the two-time US Open<\/a> semi-finalist had some strong words about the upcoming Masters 1000 event<\/p>\n

\"FrancesPhoto by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesFrances Tiafoe criticises ATP Canadian Open and says what she finds \u2018weird and \u2018garbage\u2019 about it<\/p>\n

Since 2024, many of the Masters 1000 tournaments were changed from seven days to last between 10 to 14 days.<\/p>\n

This season the Canadian Open has been extended from seven to 12 days, with the final taking place on August 7, which falls on a Thursday, an unusual day for an ATP Tour<\/a> final.<\/p>\n

This is something that Tiafoe finds quite confusing, but he is still looking forward to having a strong run at the tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is what it is. I like that it\u2019s a bit shorter than Madrid, Rome. Weird because the final is on a Thursday. That\u2019s garbage,\u201d Tiafoe told reporters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, I mean, I think it\u2019s going to be great. It\u2019s going to be a lot of fun. I love the city of Toronto. My girlfriend\u2019s from there. Then I\u2019ve got a lot of friends in the league from there, so I\u2019m going to be set up, have a good time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yeah, I mean, I guess I\u2019m ready to get going and see how that goes. The 10-day events are tough, but I think it will be easier since I\u2019m so close to the States. Something goes wrong, I\u2019m a quick flight home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like when I\u2019m stuck in Europe and playing on red clay and people speaking different languages and s\u2014. It\u2019s better to kind of be in the States, so for sure, I\u2019m really happy. Hopefully put up some good results going into the Open. That\u2019s kind of what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FrancesPhoto by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesFrances Tiafoe\u2019s Citi Open campaign is over after losing to Ben Shelton<\/p>\n

Tiafoe will begin preparing for the Canadian Open after losing to Ben Shelton<\/a> at the Citi Open.<\/p>\n

Shelton and Tiafoe are good friends<\/a> who enjoy playing against each other, but Shelton currently has his compatriot\u2019s number.<\/p>\n

He has now won three of their four encounters and his 7-6, 6-4 victory came on the back of winning 67% of his first serve points.<\/p>\n

Shelton has now made back-to-back semi-finals in Washington D.C. and he will take on Alejandro Davidovich Fokina for a spot in the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know tennis is a long journey. We\u2019re going to play each other a bunch of times,\u201d Shelton said after beating Tiafoe.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially, we\u2019ve already played on hard courts, we\u2019ve already played twice at the US Open, and he beat me the most recent time. It\u2019s tough not to cheer for a guy like that.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frances Tiafoe is currently in a portion of the tennis season he enjoys \u2013 the North American hard…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,47618,27762,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-94434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-canadian-open","10":"tag-frances-tiafoe","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114920325527898288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}