Frances Tiafoe won the biggest match of his tennis career Monday, defeating Rafael Nadal to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals. jasongay on the Maryland native’s slow but steady rise. (corrects an earlier tweet, now deleted, that said the match was Sunday)
The overnight tennis star does not exist. A player may explode into public view during a tournament, or even sharply over the course of a brilliant afternoon, but before that, there are thousands of hours, probably tens of thousands, when the same player is hidden in anonymity, competing, practicing, plateauing, struggling,…all in an effort to summon this very moment. There are bad weeks, lost months, likely some underwhelming years. It is the exact opposite of overnight.
, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, to advance to a Wednesday quarterfinal. It is a spectacular win against a legendary opponent, and vaults Tiafoe to new status and visibility. People who don’t follow tennis suddenly are asking:Tiafoe did not arrive this weekend. He was identified early as a potentially elite player, and his story is remarkable: The son of immigrants from Sierra Leone, Tiafoe started playing on the courts at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, where his father, Frances Sr.
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