Frances Tiafoe: ‘I really feel like I have a shot’ at winning Wimbledon

In 1999, his father began working as a labourer on the construction site that built the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland. When the facility was complete, he was hired as the on-site caretaker and given a spare office to live at the facility.

Such was his steep rise towards the top, a hashtag was created, #BigFoeOnTheComeUp. In 2018, he became an ATP Tour champion for the first time, and the following January, he cracked the top 30. This week Tiafoe began his first Grand Slam as a member of the top 10 elite club. Having won in Stuttgart last month, this week was also the first time that Tiafoe arrived in Wimbledon having won a title on grass. On Wednesday, he opened against China’s Wu Yibing on the off-Broadway No 3 Court.

“I mean, no, I had no idea what was going on. I was just, I was like, man, this is wild,” said Tiafoe. “Then he, yeah, he told me that his heart was skipping a beat. Having problems with his heart and stuff. Felt like he was collapsing in there. He’s like, ‘I’m gonna try and play.’ Once he said that, I was like, oh, we’re about to have a war. He’s going to start coming out and playing loose, which we did.

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