Thanks to the Williams sisters, the U.S. women’s game has built a steady flow of young talent. But the men haven’t served up a Grand Slam winner in two decades. That could soon change thanks to players like Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul and other future kings of the court.
Frances Tiafoe told a sold-out crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium after losing a five-set thriller in last year’s U.S. Open semifinals. “I will come back and win this thing one day—I’m sorry, guys.”
Star Power: Ranked No. 9 in the world entering the 2023 US Open, Taylor Fritz just missed the list of the ten highest-earning tennis players for 2023.“If you’re a star in the U.S., no doubt, you have a higher earning potential,” says John Tobias, executive vice president of GSE Worldwide, an agency that represents several top players, including Pegula. “Frances broke through, he had that big win against [Rafael] Nadal on a big stage, but he didn’t win the tournament.
Still, American fans expect championships, like the ones produced by John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in the 1980s and Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Jim Courier in the 1990s and early 2000s. Those Tennis Hall of Famers were Grand Slam champions as well as some of the most recognizable faces in the world, with Sampras and Agassi appearing regularly onIn the women’s game, U.S. fans have been spoiled for some 25 years by the extraordinary careers of Venus and Serena Williams.
One of the earliest classes of talent to emerge included Tiafoe from the mid-Atlantic region, Fritz from Southern California, Paul from Florida, and Reilly Opelka from the South, all of whom began competing against one another in their early teens at national camps. By age 16, Paul and Opelka were training full time at the USTA campus in Boca Raton, Florida, and Fritz was full time with the USTA in Carson, California.
Big Time: At 25, Tommy Paul is trying to replicate the success he had at the juniors level on the ATP Tour.“It’s tons of pressure,” says James Blake, a retired American player who peaked at No. 4 in 2006. “I think Andy felt it for a long time, I felt it, and I think these guys, especially as they get later in Slams, they’ll start hearing it more and more.
While success will bring fame and fortune, Blake is quick to point out that it’s up to that player to capitalize on it in order to break through the crowded American sports landscape and become a household name. He remembers the whirlwind Roddick went through after his triumph in 2003, hostingand appearing on late night talk shows with Conan O’Brien and David Letterman. “He was able to sustain it because of his personality,” Blake says.
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