Frances Tiafoe Jr. is an American professional tennis player. His highest world rankings by the Association of Tennis Professionals are No. 25 in men’s singles, on 2 May 2022; and No. 160 in doubles, on 1 November 2021.
Frances Tiafoe parents: Alphina Kamara, Constant Tiafoe
Frances Tiafoe is one of the most well-known and likable tennis players in the world who also has an incredible story to tell. Frances was born in Maryland on 20 January 1998, but that was just because his father Frances Sr and his mother Alphina managed to escape from a rather dire existence in Sierra Leone. Frances Sr used to work in the diamond mines of his native Sierra Leone before managing to escape. His mother Alphina won a green card lottery to live in the US when millions applied. The odds were incredibly slim. After Frances Sr.and Alphina became the parents of Frances and his twin brother Franklin, Frances Sr. found work on a construction crew that built a tennis center. Frances’ father worked so hard that the center’s owners were impressed and agreed to hire him as a janitor.
Frances Tiafoe’s parent’s nationality
Frances Tiafoe was born in Hyattsville, Maryland, to Constant Tiafoe and Alphina Kamara Tiafoe, both immigrants from the West African nation of Sierra Leone. His father came to the United States in 1993 and his mother in 1996. They were both escaping the civil war in their native country. Sierra Leone
Are Frances Tiafoe’s parents still together?
Frances’s parents are still together, and Tiafoe often posts about the importance of his family on social media, especially about how much they have given him along his road to the professional tennis circuit. He told the BBC that learning about his parent’s native country of Sierra Leone changed his view on things. “It humbled me and made me serious. It came into my head pretty quick to use tennis as a way to help, not only myself, but our family because they have sacrificed so much,” he said.
