Frances Tiafoe, one of the top 10 tennis players in the world, owes much of his success to his parents, Alphina and Frances Sr. Tiafoe. Born to immigrant parents from Sierra Leone, Frances and his ...

Frances Tiafoe’s journey blends raw talent, fierce ambition, and a close-knit support system, revealing the man behind the ...

He made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the US Open in 2015. Constant Tiafoe and Alphina Kamara are the parents of Frances Tiafoe. He was born on January 20, 1998, in Hyattsville, Maryland ...

Frances Tiafoe revealed that his parents and uncanny circumstances during his childhood played a huge part in the American's journey to becoming a professional tennis player. The World No. 19 was ...

Frances Tiafoe isn’t just arguably the best prospect ... s match versus Andrey Rublev had started long ago — from parents Constant and Alphina escaping civil war in Sierra Leone to Tiafoe ...

But Tiafoe's story, he says, began long before he ever picked up a racket, when his parents, Frances Tiafoe Sr. and Alphina Kamara, fled civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, raising Frances and ...

He’ll reach his full potential,” Wilander says, nodding at Tiafoe, who looks on with his brother and parents. “Frances should feel no pressure.” Then comes a video of Tiafoe, followed by a ...

Frances Tiafoe AFP via Getty Images “I first met Francis when he was 6 years old. I was a coach at the Junior Tennis Champion Center for four years so I met him and his parents and his twin ...

Tiafoe, whose parents emigrated from the war-torn country ... But on Tuesday, several hours after Frances Tiafoe, a son of two Sierra Leonean émigrés, beat Rafael Nadal to reach the ...

When Tiafoe first told his parents he planned to play tennis for a living, he was 12. Their response was lukewarm. “The goal was like, ‘Okay, you can play a little bit of tennis and have a scholarship ...

"You know, I’m not going to sugarcoat it," Frances Tiafoe tells me just a ... after escaping a civil war in Sierra Leone, Tiafoe's parents worked night and day in the U.S. to support their ...