Tiafoe’s mother worked at a hospital as a nurse and also did part-time jobs to add to their family’s income. As the situation presented itself, tennis was easily accessible for Frances Tiafoe ...

What ultimately kept Frances Tiafoe going in tennis despite his mother's wishes to the contrary was the belief that he had what it took to get out of the financial struggles his family had fallen ...

Frances Tiafoe has thanked his mom ... the head of maintenance at the Junior Tennis Champions Center, while their mother, Alphina, a nurse practitioner, provided stability and support off the ...

In the All-American five-set endurance semifinal, Taylor Fritz endured in the end over Frances Tiafoe to move on to his first ...

Tiafoe. Born to immigrant parents from Sierra Leone, Frances and his twin brother, Franklin, grew up in Maryland, where their father worked as the head of maintenance at the Junior Tennis Champions ...

About a dozen years ago, two 14-year-old boys arrived in Boca Raton, Florida for a tennis camp. Now they are U.S. Open ...

He was overwhelming me from the baseline,” Fritz said on the court. “I just told myself to stay in and fight.” And he listened. In the first U.S. Open semifinal between t ...

Frances and his twin brother ... big toe popped out of a hole in his shoe. But for Tiafoe, the mocking mattered little as a trip with his mother to Sierra Leone opened his eyes to the extreme ...

Frances Tiafoe hits a backhand during a men’s singles ... but she took a hiatus to become a mother in 2020. Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend high five during a women’s doubles match ...

Frances Tiafoe and mixed doubles teams, Taylor Townsend/Donald Young and Townsend /Katerina Siniakova locked arms to notch ...

Fritz is the first American man in a Slam final since Andy Roddick at Wimbledon in 2009, and the first at the Open since ...