Not long ago, Frances Tiafoe was known as a great story: the dreamy version of the American dream. The reality is something more interesting, and perhaps even more inspiring, louisahthomas writes.
, now in his mid-thirties, was recovering from an injury to an abdominal muscle, not to mention a foot injury that had nearly forced him to retire from the sport. Tiafoe agreed that there was no real favorite. “Everyone is around the same level, honestly,” Tiafoe said. “Everyone is beatable at the same time. Even the top guys.” He added, “I mean, I’m not there yet. You ask me, I’m still that dark horse who can do something special.
Tiafoe is twenty-four now, no longer a kid, and no longer a fairy tale. Of course, a person never is. The reality is something more interesting, and perhaps even more inspiring. “When I came on the scene, flying up the rankings, everything was kind of good,” he said after the match against Rublev. “I got a bit complacent, 2019. Took me a long time to kind of just get myself together.” What changed, he said, was that he “started really falling in love with the process, just trying to get better.
He has become relentless. “Tennis is a sport of position a lot of times, no?” Nadal said after losing to Tiafoe. That was how Tiafoe had beaten him. He takes the ball early, quick and brave, and is unafraid to come forward. He has soft hands around the net, and, better still, a willingness to use them. He has come in to net a hundred and seventy times this tournament, and won more than seventy per cent of those points.
Tiafoe is the first Black American to make the men’s semifinals at the U.S. Open since 1972, when Arthur Ashe did it. When the tournament began, the story was
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