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Teen tennis star Francis Tiafoe credits dad for success
It is 8 o'clock on a Tuesday morning and Francis Tiafoe is in class like any other 16-year-old, but that is where the similarity ends. His day lasts a whole lot longer than that of the average kid next door, reports CBS News special correspondent James Brown.
"I have lunch for a half hour, and I'll do school again from 12:30 to 2:00," Tiafoe said. "Then I'll play tennis from 2:00 to 4:00, and then 4:00 to 6:00 I go to school again."
Francis spends nearly 12 hours a day here at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland, in a full-time development program geared to produce future American pros.
"Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis," Tiafoe said.
As the second ranked junior in the world, Tiafoe is well on his way. Last year, at 15, he became the youngest champion in the history of the prestigious Orange Bowl tournament in Florida. Known as the "fifth grand slam" of junior tennis, some of tennis' all-time greats catapulted to stardom from there.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/orange-b...-tiafoes-rise/
It is 8 o'clock on a Tuesday morning and Francis Tiafoe is in class like any other 16-year-old, but that is where the similarity ends. His day lasts a whole lot longer than that of the average kid next door, reports CBS News special correspondent James Brown.
"I have lunch for a half hour, and I'll do school again from 12:30 to 2:00," Tiafoe said. "Then I'll play tennis from 2:00 to 4:00, and then 4:00 to 6:00 I go to school again."
Francis spends nearly 12 hours a day here at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland, in a full-time development program geared to produce future American pros.
"Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis," Tiafoe said.
As the second ranked junior in the world, Tiafoe is well on his way. Last year, at 15, he became the youngest champion in the history of the prestigious Orange Bowl tournament in Florida. Known as the "fifth grand slam" of junior tennis, some of tennis' all-time greats catapulted to stardom from there.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/orange-b...-tiafoes-rise/
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