A man came in and asked the bartender to flip to the U.S. Open. Someone local was playing: Frances Tiafoe. A Prince Georgian? In the quarterfinals? “We’ve got to put that on,” Michael Glass Jr. said.
“My mom, she called me crying,” Malik said. “And I teared up too because it’s like, Frances, man.”
huddled with their peers Wednesday afternoon at one end of the cavernous tent that houses JTCC’s indoor courts, where folding chairs were arranged on the gray clay around an inflatable screen playing the match. At the schools and centers JTCC serves, not all the kids have heard of Tiafoe, Akli says. He thinks his name will grow after his run this year at the U.S. Open, and inspire more Prince George’s youth.“Most of them say, ‘Oh, we’ve just heard his name,’ but they don’t know exactly who he is, what he’s done for the community,” Akli said. “This is going to get bigger and bigger.”
Cheers broke out when Tiafoe finally clinched the match with a searing ace. Glass looked behind him and shared a grin with Clair and Mitchell, strangers who all agreed: the county needed this win.
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