Tiafoe sofascore4/11/2023 ![]() ![]() LeBron James tweeted words of encouragement to Tiafoe after his stunning fourth-round upset over tennis star Rafael Nadal. ![]() Later, his dad became a maintenance worker at the facility, affording Tiafoe access to the facilities, equipment and training he would need to blossom in the sport. Tiafoe had an even more hard-scrabble introduction to tennis, which he learned to play on the same courts that his father – an immigrant from war torn Sierra Leone – helped build as a member of the construction crew. The story of Serena – trained as a child by her father, along with her sister Venus on the public courts in Compton, California – is well-known. Both players had to overcome economic hardship to find success in a sport with a history of racial exclusion, one not historically kind to Black players. In Serena Williams, the US Open provided a fitting tribune for a tennis legend winding down a historic career In Tiafoe, it had a gifted young up-and-comer with all the promise in the world. Now that Grand Slams are over and we can assess the year in tennis, it’s remarkable to consider that the 2022 US Open was bracketed by the achievements of two highly successful Black players, in what remains an overwhelmingly White sport. ![]()
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