In a year of firsts for 16-year-old Junior Tennis Champions Center player Francis Tiafoe, Monday provided arguably the biggest so far: an ATP main draw debut in prime time on center court at his hometown Citi Open, to be broadcast live on national television. With...
Francis Tiafoe, the No. 6 ranked junior in the International Tennis Federation, has received a wild card entry to the main draw of the Citi Open® Tournament. It will be the College Park, Md., native's first foray into an ATP World Tour tournament's main draw. Tiafoe,...
In spite of the sweltering DC heat and arduous competition, Usue Arconada and Francis Tiafoe, two Junior Tennis Champions Center players, prevailed in the inaugural Citi Open Wildcard Challenge on Tuesday afternoon. Usue, the No. 2 seed, defeated the No. 3 (Malika...
. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN09JMkR69U Déjà vu. On his 28th birthday, The King of Clay again enlisted the assistance of a JTCC junior player to participate in his practice routine. Five years ago, Denis Kudla's (JTCC alum) junior French Open first round match...
The US' top amateur tennis players will have a chance to compete in one of the most competitive professional tennis tournaments in the world. The Citi Open®, the Nation's Capital Tennis Tradition, and the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), one of the leading...
The USTA announced yesterday that JTCC players Raveena Kingsley, Usue Arconada, and Andrew Fenty are among the top young Americans selected to represent the United States in Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas (16-and-under) and the boys’ and girls’...
. Up 5-2 in the first set, Francis Tiafoe started to feel the match slipping away. “I definitely could have made that a little easier,” he told The Desert Sun. “I was up in the first set and we were both playing ugly tennis.” His opponent, Nathan Ponwith, started to...
. Francis Tiafoe will compete for the ASISC Easter Bowl ITF Tennis Championships this afternoon, his second straight ITF final. On a day where temperatures cooled into the 80s at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, No. 1 ranked Tiafoe cruised through his semifinal,...
. With two gritty three set displays, JTCC players Francis Tiafoe and Aron Hiltzik have advanced to the semifinals of the ASISC Easter Bowl. With the heat rule still in effect at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, No. 1 Tiafoe took the court against No. 7 Taylor Fritz in...