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[ESPN] History in the making. Francis Tiafoe is the first Black American man to reach the US Open semifinals since Arthur Ashe in 1972.


[ESPN] History in the making. Francis Tiafoe is the first Black American man to reach the US Open semifinals since Arthur Ashe in 1972.



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16 Comments

  • JimmyFu2U

    I’m so tired of race being the first thing anyone talks about. Can’t we celebrate that he’s just done fucking awesome? Let the down votes commence

  • loonatik87

    I feel like people in the comments need to be reminded that the article specifies “man”. Seems people are sleeping on one of the GOATs (regardless of gender) in Serena. One of the best to ever do it.

  • TomorrowWeKillToday

    Fuck all your training and accomplishments as a tennis player, the real accomplishment is the colour of your skin? WTF America?

  • Dash-Ryprock

    Arthur Ashe should be in the same breath as Jackie Robinson. As a white kid in the ‘70s, he was a bigger role model to me than Connors or McEnroe. If only he’d lived longer, what he must have endured would be fully appreciated. Thanks in part to him, I didn’t become an arrogant a-hole.

  • flatcologne

    When African Americans dominate everything athletically from basketball to football to track and field and athletics in general, I don’t understand how this is a thing worth celebrating.

    It’s like celebrating a Pacific Islander being great at rugby, it’s just to be expected, not celebrated. The only reason black Americans aren’t over represented in tennis is because like golf it’s a wealthy WASPy sort of sport; but if they culturally cared about tennis enough to actually play it consistently growing up we know they’d likely dominate in the way they do most sports where speed and explosiveness is a significant factor.

  • tinathefatlardgosh

    My dad looks like Arthur Ashe and my mom looks like Howard Stern and that is why I look like Ernie from Sesame Street

    – Eric Andre

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