ABU DHABI: Frances Tiafoe, the 2022 US Open semifinalist, will make his Mubadala World Tennis Championship debut at Abu Dhabi’s International Tennis Centre in Zayed Sports City from Dec.
16 to 18, organizers have revealed. Tiafoe, 24, currently the top-ranked player in the US, is the latest addition to the lineup of A-list players, including world No.
1 Carlos Alcaraz, No. 3 Casper Ruud, and defending champion Andrey Rublev. Born in Sierra Leone and raised in Maryland, US, Tiafoe reached his highest world ranking of No.
19 last month after becoming the first American since 2006 to reach the final four at Flushing Meadows. As a prodigious 15-year-old, Tiafoe scooped the 2013 Orange Bowl championship, widely regarded as being the sport’s most prestigious junior international competition.