When American star Frances Tiafoe handed his compatriot and friend a heartbreaking defeat in Tuesday’s U.S. Open quarterfinals, it was what he did after that captured the hearts of a nation.
Tiafoe had just completed an all-time epic comeback against world No. 46 Alex Michelsen, who was playing in his first-ever Grand Slam quarterfinal. After dropping the first two sets, Tiafoe punched back in the third and fourth sets to force a winner-take-all tiebreaker in the fifth.
