Frances Tiafoe’s worrying Grand Slam record continues to get worse as he exits the Australian Open

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Frances Tiafoe will be on an early flight home after suffering an upset defeat at the Australian Open.

The 17th seed squandered a two sets to one lead against Hungary’s Fábián Marozsán to lose in five sets and have his campaign come to an end in just the second round.

This was the 26-year-old’s second successive five-set match at Melbourne Park, but he was unable to win both.

Frances Tiafoe has reached the US Open semi-finals on two occasions, but he has struggled at the Grand Slams outside of his home country.

Frances Tiafoe suffers early Australian Open exit

Tiafoe’s concerning Grand Slam record outside of the United States, leaves little to be desired.

He thrives at the US Open, where he has achieved the best results of his career by reaching the last four on two occasions.

But after his second round loss at the Australian Open on Thursday, Tiafoe has now been defeated in the first week of the last seven Grand Slams outside the US.

Tiafoe had chances to create an advantage in the fourth set but he failed to take any of the 10 break points he created.

He would rue these opportunities as Marozsán levelled the match and set into a decider, before dominating set five to win 6-7(3), 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.

What is Frances Tiafoe’s recent Grand Slam record outside of the United States?

Since the start of the 2023 season, Tiafoe has failed to progress beyond the third round of any Grand Slam outside of the US Open.

Tiafoe made the third round of the 2023 Australian Open before losing to Karen Karen Khachanov in four sets, and Alexander Zverev needed four sets to win their French Open third round contest.

Once again Tiafoe got to the third round this time at Wimbledon, but Grigor Dimitrov claimed the win for the loss of just six games.

2024 was not much better, as Tiafoe fell to the big-hitting Tomas Machac in round two of the Australian Open, and Denis Shapovalov claimed a four-set victory in the second round of Roland Garros.

Tiafoe reached round three at Wimbledon last season, and contested a five-set epic against Carlos Alcaraz, which the Spaniard won before going on to defend his title.