No player embodies the euphoria-inducing energy of the US Open better than Frances Tiafoe, and the 27-year-old American could not hide his enthusiasm on Friday while spoke with the media prior to his 11th career main table appearance in the Big Apple.
“Excited to be here,” he said, leaning in the microphone with a smile. “Number 11 … that many of us opens.”
DC Native Tiafoe quickly confesses his love for the American SLAM. Others can faithfully promise to the holy lawns of Wimbledon, the Terre Battue of Paris or the unstoppable joy of the Australian Open, but the US Open is certainly Tiafoe’s Jazz.
“Best few weeks of our game, certainly, without a question,” he said Friday. “Just very happy to go here and compete at the highest level and start my search.”
Tiafoe, who made his rinse Meadows Main-Draw debut in 2015, can be in the middle of a funk, but he did not let it dampen. He has not won a title this season or even demanded a top 10 victory, but overweight that disappointing statistics at your danger: the Frances Tiafoe that appears in New York every year is a definitely other animal.
Tiafoe, who lost to Taylor Fritz in a heartbreaking semi -final of five set last year, experiences a boost in confidence every time he sets foot in the five districts.
“If I am 100 percent, how I am here who feels like competing, I will be good, exactly where I want to be,” he said. “I have had so many good memories in this place. It’s like a second nature.”
Based on the infectious enthusiasm, it would be thought that Tiafoe had come directly from a seminar about the power of positive thinking. In reality it is just how Big Foe rolls in Flushing Meadows, where he reached the second week in each of his last five performances, and semi -final in two of the last three.
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