They took advantage of their living situation to start playing tennis regularly at age 4. Frances and Franklin lived with their father at the center for five days a week for the next 11 years. When the facility was completed, he was hired as the on-site custodian and given a spare office to live in at the center. In 1999, his father began working as a day laborer on a construction crew that built the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland.
His father immigrated to the United States in 1993, while his mother joined him in 1996 to escape the civil war in their country. At the 2019 Australian Open, he reached the quarterfinals, and at the 2022 US Open, he reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.įrances Tiafoe was born on January 20, 1998, along with his twin brother Franklin, in Maryland, to Constant (better known as Frances Sr.) Tiafoe and Alphina Kamara, immigrants from Sierra Leone. Tiafoe broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in 2016. As a teenager, he won the US Junior National Championship and enjoyed success on the ATP Challenger Tour, reaching nine finals and winning four titles. At 17, he became the youngest American in the main draw of the French Open since Michael Chang in 1989. At 15, Tiafoe won the 2013 Orange Bowl, the tournament's youngest-ever boys' singles champion. His unique background and success as a teenager led him to be widely regarded as a great prospect to become one of the next American tennis stars. The son of Sierra Leonean immigrants, Tiafoe was raised at the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), a USTA regional training center in College Park, Maryland, where his father worked as the head of maintenance. Tiafoe won his first and only ATP title at the 2018 Delray Beach Open, becoming the youngest American man to win a tournament on the ATP Tour since Andy Roddick in 2002.
14 in singles, on February 6, 2023, and world No. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has ranked Tiafoe as high as world No. ( / t i ˈ ɑː f oʊ/ tee- AH-foh born January 20, 1998) is an American professional tennis player.
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