Frances Tiafoe on Monday defeated No 2 seed Rafael Nadal in the fourth round of the 2022 US Open. The 24-year-old American won 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. He will now face No 9 seed Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinal on Wednesday.

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“To have them see what I did today means more than anything,” Tiafoe said. “Today’s an unbelievable day and I’m going to soak this one in, for sure.”

His parents were in the stands. Tiafoe thanked them and all his supporters after the match. 

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“I don’t even know what to say right now. I’m beyond happy. I can’t believe it,” said Tiafoe. “He’s one of the greatest of all time. I played unbelievable tennis today, but I don’t even know what happened.”

Who is Franklin Tiafoe, Frances Tiafoe’s twin brother? 

Frances Tiafoe has a twin brother – Franklin. The two were born on January 20, 1998, in Maryland, to Constant (better known as Frances Sr.) Tiafoe and Alphina Kamara, immigrants from Sierra Leone.

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Franklin Tiafoe is also a tennis player. He was a student at DeMatha High School in Maryland and then played one year of college tennis at Salisbury University.

In 2021, Franklin joined the Howard University Tennis program as a volunteer coach. He then player for Salisbury University before deciding to start coaching and pursuing his own professional development.

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Sharing his parents’ journey on BBC, Frances had said: “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.”

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Frances Tiafoe is the youngest American man to get that far at the U.S. Open since Andy Roddick in 2006. “Well, the difference is easy: I played a bad match and he played a good match,” Nadal said. “At the end that’s it.”