PARIS -- Frances Tiafoe had some strong words for his opponent during another grueling five-set victory at the French Open on Saturday.
Tiafoe and Portuguese qualifier Jaime Faria started arguing about a call early in the fifth set.
"Don't act like you're tough," Tiafoe told Faria. "You're not hard, bro. Just play."
Faria then complained to the chair umpire as the players approached each other at the net: "You see what he's saying?"
The chair umpire told both players to be quiet.
Tiafoe won the third-round match 4-6, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-2 in four hours.
Frances Tiafoe, above, got into a verbal sparring match with Portuguese qualifier Jaime Faria, whom he accused of acting "tough" during an argument over a call in the fifth set. Tiafoe won 4-6, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-2. Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images "I needed that," Tiafoe said of the exchange. "Because I'm up at the time, but I'm still a little nervous. And he was chirping. He definitely gave me a lot of lip. He thought he was [boxer] Ryan Garcia or something."
Tiafoe next meets Matteo Arnaldi, who eliminated Raphael Collignon in a fifth-set tiebreaker after nearly five hours.
Tiafoe also beat Hubert Hurkacz in five sets in the second round.
In other men's third-round matches, teenager Moise Kouame's French Open run ended when he lost to Alejandro Tabilo 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (9).
Kouame, a 17-year-old from the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, saved four match points, but his resistance was finally broken when he mis-hit a shot at the net.