Frances Tiafoe Reveals He Did Shots with Taylor Swift: ‘This Is Crazy’

Tennis player Frances Tiafoe is opening up about his night partying with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce — and jokingly name-dropping a few more celebs along the way.

During an appearance on The Pivot podcast — hosted by NFL alums Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder — on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the tennis star, 26, got candid about some of the most famous athletes and celebrities he’s become close with since making his way up the ATP rankings to hold the No. 17 spot in the world.

“I’ve said it in real time, whoever I’m with, like, ‘Yo, I’m out here taking shots with Taylor Swift,’ ” Tiafoe said, confirming that he shared some drinks with Swift, 35, and Kelce, also 35 — as well as some other star athletes, including Kelce’s teammate Patrick Mahomes.. “Granted, I gotta keep it a buck, we’re here on The Pivot — I’m a Beyoncé guy. But at the moment I’m like, man, like, this is crazy, she’s the biggest star out here.”

“Then Travis and Mahomes they were like ‘Yo, we gotta have you in [Kansas City],’ ” he continued. “Them saying that is wild to me, that they would roll out the red carpet for me. It’s crazy because playing tennis and being able to reach that many people and people want to meet me and hang out and actually do stuff, those are the things, it’s why you do what you do.”

Tiafoe also said that he’s shared a few conversations with Knicks teammates Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart — and added that tennis legend John McEnroe has texted him after a big win.

While Tiafoe didn’t say when he partied with the singer-songwriter and Kansas City Chiefs tight end took place, he was likely referring to hanging out with the couple in a suite at Arrowhead Stadium after the Chiefs beat the Denver Broncos on Nov. 10. Tiafoe attended the game with his girlfriend Ayan Broomfield, who posted a TikTok from the outing with video of the two couples posing together, and one of Swift playfully sticking out her tongue.

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Bloomfield said she had dropped hints to Tiafoe about getting them into the game. “I was talking to my friend a few weeks ago about wanting to experience a chiefs game,” she wrote. “And look at frances overhearing the conversation and making it happen 😩🥹.”

Elsewhere in their conversation, The Pivot hosts also asked Tiafoe about what he considers a turning point in his career. For the star player, he said that moment came in 2022, when he knocked 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal out of the U.S. Open.

“I stepped into something different,” he said, recalling the day he won the match. “I went to the hotel that day, and the hotel was packed, everybody waiting for me. Now I got [security] like making sure I’m straight.

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“When I checked into the hotel, that day they were like, ‘Oh, are you here to watch the U.S. Open?’ ” he said to laughs from the hosts.

For Tiafoe, his win also served as an opportunity to consider how he views himself — both as an athlete and a person.

“… It’s amazing how it can gets changed like that like all of a sudden, you know? Everybody want to come watch, people hitting me [up], I’m going to events I never thought about. … It took me a while to take that in. I never really saw myself like that, but now I kind of embrace it. It’s helped me a lot, for sure …balancing that level of fame and not getting out of character and maintaining a certain level of focus so you can go on and achieve your goals.”

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