![]() Tiafoe broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in 2016. 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. At 17, he became the youngest American in the main draw of the French Open since Michael Chang in 1989. At 15, Tiafoe won the 2013 Orange Bowl, the tournament's youngest-ever boys' singles champion. 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. 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. ![]() On June 19, 2023, he became the first Sierra Leonean American and only the third Black American man to be ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), after Arthur Ashe and James Blake. 10 in singles on June 19, 2023, and world No. ![]() Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston and his third on grass in 2023 Stuttgart. He won his second title on clay at the 2023 U.S. 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. ( / t i ˈ ɑː f oʊ/ tee- AH-foh born January 20, 1998), is an American professional tennis player. ![]()
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