Frances Tiafoe

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Frances Tiafoe Tennis player
Frances Tiafoe
Tiafoe 2016 at Wimbledon
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: January 20, 1998
Size: 188 cm
Weight: 86 kg
1st professional season: 2015
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Zack Evenden
Prize money: $ 3,439,925
singles
Career record: 62:89
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 29 (February 11, 2019)
Current placement: 81
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (2019)
French Open 1R (2015, 2017, 2018)
Wimbledon 3R (2018)
US Open 2R (2018)
Double
Career record: 10:19
Highest ranking: 173 (March 4, 2019)
Current placement: 536
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2018, 2020)
French Open 1R (2017, 2018)
Wimbledon 1R (2017, 2018)
US Open 2R (2014)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open -
Wimbledon -
US Open 1R (2018)
Last update of the infobox:
March 13, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Frances Tiafoe (born January 20, 1998 in Hyattsville , Maryland ) is an American tennis player .

Career

Frances Tiafoe initially played mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Future Tour . He made his debut in singles on the ATP World Tour in July 2014 at the Citi Open , where he lost in two sets against Yevgeny Donskoy in the opening round .

In doubles at the US Open, the first appearance on World Tour level took place. Here Tiafoe formed a double pair with Michael Mmoh . They won their first round game, but then lost in the next round against Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram clearly in straight sets.

After winning a match at Wimbledon for the first time in 2017 and a smooth second round defeat against Alexander Zverev , Tiafoe reached a new record with position 62 in the world. In February 2018, he won his first ATP tournament in Delray Beach . In September of that year he made his debut for the US Davis Cup team in the semifinals against Croatia .

Private

At the beginning of July 2020, he announced that he was sick with COVID-19 .

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500 Series
ATP World Tour 250 Series (1)
ATP Challenger Tour (4)
ATP title by topping
Hard Court (1)
Sand (0)
Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. February 25, 2018 United StatesUnited States Delray Beach Hard court GermanyGermany Peter Gojowczyk 6: 1, 6: 4
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. 7th August 2016 CanadaCanada Granby Hard court El SalvadorEl Salvador Marcelo Arévalo 6: 1, 6: 1
2. October 9, 2016 United StatesUnited States Stockton Hard court United StatesUnited States Noah Rubin 6: 4, 6: 2
3. April 23, 2017 United StatesUnited States Sarasota sand United StatesUnited States Tennys Sandgren 6: 3, 6: 4
4th May 14, 2017 FranceFrance Aix-en-Provence sand FranceFrance Jérémy Chardy 6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 6 5

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. May 6, 2018 PortugalPortugal Estoril sand PortugalPortugal João Sousa 4: 6, 4: 6

Double

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. April 16, 2017 United StatesUnited States Houston sand GermanyGermany Dustin Brown ChileChile Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos
ArgentinaArgentina  		6: 4, 5: 7, [6:10]

Web links

Commons : Frances Tiafoe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost
personal data
SURNAME Tiafoe, Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Hyattsville, Maryland