Frances Tiafoe’s U.S. Open run ends in semifinals, but he’s a champion of resilience
NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe put his heart on the line in his U.S. Open semifinal against Carlos Alcaraz. He never gives less. In the biggest match of his life, he gave even more — more of an incredible effort and more of himself, a luminous athlete whose performance transcended the numbers that said he had lost. The son of a custodian at a Maryland tennis center, Tiafoe’s grandest hope was to ...
NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe put his heart on the line in his U.S. Open semifinal against Carlos Alcaraz. He never gives less. In the biggest match of his life, he gave even more — more of an incredible effort and more of himself, a luminous athlete whose performance transcended the numbers that said he had lost.
The son of a custodian at a Maryland tennis center, Tiafoe’s grandest hope was to get a tennis scholarship because his family couldn’t afford to send him to college. On Friday, as the first Black American man to reach the semifinals of the U.S. Open since Arthur Ashe did so
