'I feel like I can make that stadium shake'
, the four-time U.S. Open champion, in the round of 16. While Nadal may have been a sentimental favorite during that match, from that moment on, the crowd fell hard for Tiafoe.
“New Yorkers love great entertainment,” says Tiafoe. “Everyone is tapped into tennis. The energy is second to none. Some people are made for it. Some people aren’t. I feel like I can make that stadium shake.”a long-awaited American emergence on the men’s side of the game. Andy Roddick was the last American man to win a Grand Slam event, the U.S. Open in 2003. Serbian Novak Djokovic, who is back in the U.S. Open, and Alcaraz of Spain are clear favorites to meet in the finals .
The son of immigrants from Sierra Leone, Tiafoe grew up in suburban Washington, D.C. His father was hired as a custodian at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Md. Frances and his twin brother, Franklin, would often sleep in the storage room in the tennis center while their mother worked night shifts as a nurse. Spending so much time at the tennis center turned Tiafoe on to the game. “I loved the one-on-one competition of it,” he says. “There’s problem solving.
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