The Tennis Parents Who Never Left the Court

For Palm Beach's own courtside faithful, the appeal of Frances Tiafoe's rise has as much to do with what happened off the court as on it. His father, Frances Tiafoe Sr., spent his days and nights working inside a tennis center while his twin sons grew up in and around its walls. It is the kind of quiet, unglamorous devotion that anyone who has watched a promising junior come up on a local court will recognize immediately — the parent who is simply always there, long before anyone else is paying attention.

With reporting from Town & Country.