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Frances Tiafoe Talks Comeback Win & Altercation vs. Jaime Faria | Roland-Garros 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: We started to highlights get into it. The f in
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  Speaker 1: Fo stands for five sets. It sure does.
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  Speaker 2: At the five set win in his second round victory
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  Speaker 2: over QB Hertotch and in this round ends up against
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  Speaker 2: a qualifier, a little bit of qualifier from Portugal and Faria,
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  Speaker 2: who came out playing really well. Takes the first set
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  Speaker 2: six to four. They get into a second set tiebreaker.
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  Speaker 2: Here I think Big Foe was just a little surprised
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  Speaker 2: at this guy's level. His backhand was absolutely money, as
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  Speaker 2: you can see Evans right there, that back and down
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  Speaker 2: the line, the big one. In the tie breaker, he
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  Speaker 2: takes another backhand pass right there. He takes the second set.
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  Speaker 2: In Tiger, he's up two sets of love. But you've
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  Speaker 2: got to give Big Fow a lot of credit. This
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  Speaker 2: four to three game where he breaks uh Farrio had
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  Speaker 2: about three game points on his short to take it.
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  Speaker 1: To five three.
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  Speaker 2: Big Fo showed so much heart. He absolutely earned that
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  Speaker 2: break and he absolutely earned this third set as well.
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  Speaker 2: So at this point he has all the momentum. After
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  Speaker 2: the third set, he see gets up an early break
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth. He started playing so much better. His
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  Speaker 2: shark shots, excuse me, start having a lot more on
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  Speaker 2: them and back end it with absolutely money after the
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  Speaker 2: second set, and after that third set tiebreak victory gets
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  Speaker 2: it into a fifth set and it was all Fox
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  Speaker 2: taking the fourth set six to one, and he eventually
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  Speaker 2: gets the break at three to two and then gets
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  Speaker 2: another break at five to two to close it out
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  Speaker 2: six to two in the fifth set. An absolutely huge
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  Speaker 2: win with a lot of heart the Big Fox.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time when Francis Tiafo couldn't win a
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  Speaker 1: five set match at Roland Garros. He has now won
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  Speaker 1: three in a row. Second time he has come back
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  Speaker 1: from down oh two. My favorite part of the match
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  Speaker 1: when he was going up and back with Faria, came
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  Speaker 1: right up to the net said why don't you quit
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  Speaker 1: trying to act like you're tough. You're not hard, bro,
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  Speaker 1: just play. The DMV came out and Foe advances on.
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  Speaker 1: Francis Tiafo caught up with R. Sloan Stevens after the match.
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  Speaker 3: Francis, incredible match today. You were down two sets to
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  Speaker 3: love and a break. What was going through your mind
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  Speaker 3: at that point?
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  Speaker 4: Not a lot of good things, that's for sure, But
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  Speaker 4: I was like, if I can just get a break,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I don't want him want to try
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  Speaker 4: to get a break when he's serving for it. If
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  Speaker 4: I can just try to get a break back here
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  Speaker 4: and play a super tough game, you know, things can
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  Speaker 4: change and you know, get back on serve. And once
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  Speaker 4: I held there and I was sorry broken and had
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  Speaker 4: a good hold, I felt like I can I can
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  Speaker 4: get through this if I could maybe squeak out this
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  Speaker 4: third set, and you know, his body went and then
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  Speaker 4: once we got to chirp and I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sitting at Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So back to back five setters, which you haven't really
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  Speaker 3: done consistently with the winds though, with the winds, your
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  Speaker 3: team started yelling take his legs. I was like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: take his legs. How did you feel when you were
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  Speaker 3: looking on the other side of the court, what did
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  Speaker 3: you feel like his body language was giving?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt like he you know, he wasn't scratching
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  Speaker 4: and getting those balls like he was in the first
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  Speaker 4: two sets. He was really going for broke when he
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  Speaker 4: started running, so try to extend those points and obviously
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  Speaker 4: you going to hurt a little bit in the process
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  Speaker 4: of that, but yeah, he was just hurting way more
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  Speaker 4: than I was. So back in my fitness at this
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  Speaker 4: point and you know, experience.
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  Speaker 3: And then at the end there was a little beef
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  Speaker 3: happening at the net. You came to the net, he
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  Speaker 3: was at the net. I feel like you showed a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of toughness there and that fired you up
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  Speaker 3: at the end. How are you feeling after that point
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  Speaker 3: after you guys met at the net.
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  Speaker 4: No percent, hundred percent, you know. And I felt like
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  Speaker 4: I needed that too, because I'm you know, I'm up
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  Speaker 4: at the time, but I'm still a little nervous. So
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  Speaker 4: and he was sturping. He definitely give me a lot
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  Speaker 4: of live he thought he was Ryan Garcia or something.
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  Speaker 4: So I just had to definitely let him know, like
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  Speaker 4: you'll still out broke, just play and just enjoy enjoy
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  Speaker 4: being in Paris and just play. So yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: it was a little back and forth, nothing serious, but
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  Speaker 4: it definitely one of.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite one to the fourth round.
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  Speaker 4: Good luck, I appreciation