As much as I don’t like you right now, you’re one of my best friends. I’m super happy for you to get the title.
You’ve been having a great year, so congrats, dude."
Emotional Father's Day Victory
The win held special meaning as it fell on Father's Day.
Tiafoe has often credited his father, Frances Sr., who worked as a maintenance worker at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland, where Tiafoe and his twin brother Franklin trained.
"Dad always loved tennis, and he worked around the clock at the JTCC so he could keep that job, and so Franklin and I could have a place to play the game we’d fallen in love with," Tiafoe wrote.
He added, "I realize now how hard he worked, and how much he sacrificed, to allow my brother and me to chase our dreams and have the life he and my mom wanted us to have — the one they couldn’t have in Sierra Leone."
Both Americans now shift focus to grass-court preparations for Wimbledon.
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Fritz will be the top seed at the Eastbourne Open, while Tiafoe enters the Mallorca Championships as the No. 3 seed.
