For the third year, Frances Tiafoe will be returning to the U.S. Open quarterfinals. The 26-year-old defeated Alexei Popyrin 6-4, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-3 on Sunday night to advance. With the win, Tiafoe ...

Tiafoe kept providing answers, and eventually had more energy by the end. Down two sets to one, Tiafoe beat Shelton 6-4 and broke him in the 10th game to win the fourth set and stay alive.

Frances Tiafoe stands at a podium surrounded by family, fans, and children holding tennis racquets. He looks past a cluster of television news cameras, toward a storage room where he used to sleep.

On Saturday at the U.S. Open, he continued what has been a slow, steady ascent and shooed the 14th-seeded Diego Schwartzman with a 7-6 (9-7), 6-4, 6-4 win that sent him through to fourth round.

Tiafoe is part of 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.

The 24-year-old tennis player is the first Black American man to reach the semifinals since Arthur Ashe's 1972 appearance in the round, according to Today. Tiafoe is also the first American man to ...

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.