(1998-01-20) January 20, 1998 (age 26) Hyattsville, Maryland, U.S.
Height
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Turned pro
2015
Plays
Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach
Diego Moyano (Dec 2023 – Apr 2024)
Prize money
US $10,592,861
Singles
Career record
187–173 (51.9%)
Career titles
3
Highest ranking
No. 10 (June 19, 2023)
Current ranking
No. 21 (April 22, 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open
QF (2019)
French Open
3R (2023)
Wimbledon
4R (2022)
US Open
SF (2022)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games
2R (2021)
Doubles
Career record
30–48 (38.5%)
Career titles
0
Highest ranking
No. 160 (November 1, 2021)
Current ranking
No. 192 (April 22, 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open
3R (2021)
French Open
2R (2021, 2022)
Wimbledon
1R (2017, 2018)
US Open
2R (2014)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games
2R (2021)
Team competitions
Davis Cup
SF (2018)
Hopman Cup
RR (2019)
Last updated on: April 24, 2024.
Frances Tiafoe Jr. (/tiˈɑːfoʊ/tee-AH-foh;[1] born January 20, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. He reached his career high at world No. 10 in singles on June 19, 2023, and world No. 160 in doubles on November 1, 2021. Tiafoe won his first of three ATP titles at the 2018 Delray Beach Open, becoming the youngest American man to win a tournament on the ATP Tour since Andy Roddick in 2002. He won his second title on clay at the 2023 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston and his third on grass in 2023 Stuttgart. On June 19, 2023, he became the first Sierra Leonean American and only the third African-American man to be ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), after Arthur Ashe and James Blake.[2]
The son of Sierra Leonean immigrants, Tiafoe was raised at the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), a USTA regional training center in College Park, Maryland, where his father worked as the head of maintenance. His unique background and success as a teenager led him to be widely regarded as a great prospect to become one of the next American tennis stars.[3][4][5][6][7][8] At 15, Tiafoe won the 2013 Orange Bowl, the tournament's youngest-ever boys' singles champion. At 17, he became the youngest American in the main draw of the French Open since Michael Chang in 1989. As a teenager, he won the US Junior National Championship and enjoyed success on the ATP Challenger Tour, reaching nine finals and winning four titles.
Tiafoe broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in 2016. At the 2019 Australian Open, he reached the quarterfinals, and at the 2022 US Open, he reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.
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Generation ATP Finals, where he won against Jaume Munar, but lost to FrancesTiafoe and Stefanos Tsitsipas. In 2019, he won his first ATP title at the 2019...
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