home and trains at the JTCC, spending about 10 weeks a year there. It’s also where Frances and his twin brother Franklin slept on a massage table as young boys in what was then was a glorified janitor’s closet that doubled as a home for the hardworking father and his boys while their mother, Alphina Kamara, who’d emigrated from Sierra Leone a few years after Constant, worked nights as a nurse.īut despite many pros opting for the warmer climes of Florida or California, Tiafoe still calls D.C. His father, Constant, who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone in the early 1990s, was on the construction crew that built it. The 24-year-old Tiafoe’s impact can be seen and felt all over the sprawling complex. Benton, a longtime tennis exec and the JTCC’s CEO, makes sure kids get one each time they advance a level in the center’s junior program. are four Frances Tiafoe bobbleheads, each with a different color t-shirt and the words “Trust Your Training” inscribed on them. On a shelf in Ray Benton’s office at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in suburban Washington D.C. Woman caught hilariously knitting during Frances Tiafoe-Carlos Alcaraz US Open thrillerĬOLLEGE PARK, Md. How Roger Federer fared in his final matchĬarlos Alcaraz, win or lose, is tennis’ present and future
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