Frances Tiafoe (left) aged nine at the tennis club where he grew up, and at this year's Australian Open (right) 2018 French Open Venue: Roland Garros, Paris Dates: 27 May-10 June Frances Tiafoe is speaking from a bedroom in a five-star hotel in Geneva. It is a stark contrast to where the American spent many of his boyhood nights, sleeping on the floor of a spare office in Maryland alongside his father and twin brother. But a young Tiafoe - now 20, 61st in the world, and preparing for a French Open first-round match against Sam Querrey - felt fortunate bedding down in that three-metre-by-four back room, even before he knew it was the key to his future life. Tiafoe is a rank outsider for the French Open, but his story - and that of his family - is of greater odds overcome and slim chances seized. It begins, two years before he was born, with his mother Alphina. Frances Tiafoe, front left, with his twin brother Franklin, m
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