Rafael Saakyan

Sep 10, 2024 | voaafrica.com | Anna Rice |Rafael Saakyan |Karina Bafradzhian

Frances Tiafoe, a Sierra Leonean American tennis player received high praise by tennis commentators for recently becoming one of two Americans making it to the first all-American Grand Slam men's singles semifinal final since 2005. Reporters Rafael Saakyan and Karina Bafradzhian have more on the story narrated by VOA’s Anna Rice.

Sep 9, 2024 | voanews.com | Karina Bafradzhian |Rafael Saakyan

EmbedThe code has been copied to your clipboard. widthpxheightpxNo media source currently available0:000:02:580:00For the first time in over 20 years, there were two American semifinalists in both men’s and women’s tournaments at the U.S. Open. One of them was Frances Tiafoe, an alumnus of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland. VOA Russian visited the center, where Tiafoe still trains between tennis tournaments.