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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) \u2014 Last year, Sam Jalloh zig-zagged across West Africa coaching tennis to kids, taking with him rackets, balls and a cellphone loaded with photos and videos of a pro player in action to inspire the youngsters.<\/p>\n

The player? Frances Tiafoe.<\/p>\n

That move to encourage young Africans by showing them images of Tiafoe, an American with Sierra Leone roots, has paid off. Jalloh\u2019s phone has pinged and pinged this week with text messages from many of the kids, delighted by the 24-year-old Tiafoe\u2019s incredible run<\/a> to the semifinals at the U.S. Open, where he beat Rafael Nadal along the way.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018coach, have you seen Frances? This is really good.\u2019 When these things happen . . . you can see that it motivates children,\u201d Jalloh said. \u201cThey are very, very excited and it\u2019s not just kids from Sierra Leone. I\u2019ve got kids from Gambia, kids from Ghana, kids from Nigeria. This will bring a lot more inspiration for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tiafoe was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Sierra Leone \u2014 also Jalloh\u2019s home country \u2014 and while Tiafoe offers new hope for the future of American tennis,<\/a> the African link made him an ideal role model for Jalloh to use, even before this breakthrough U.S. Open where he advanced to Friday\u2019s semifinals before losing in five sets to Carlos Alcaraz.<\/a>Frances Tiafoe, of the United States, reacts after defeating Andrey Rublev, of Russia, during the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS\/Seth WenigPreviousNext<\/a><\/p>\n

Tiafoe\u2019s parents, Frances Sr. and Alphina, struggled when they first arrived in the U.S. Frances Sr. worked as a laborer and then janitor at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in Maryland. Alphina put in long night shifts as a nurse. Frances Jr. and his twin brother, Franklin, were born in Maryland and lived for much of the first 10 years of their lives in a converted office at the tennis center.With that backstory, Jalloh could see kids in West Africa make \u201ca connection\u201d to Tiafoe even though he also showed them clips of 22-time Grand Slam singles champion Nadal and other top players.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt inspires them to go on and be great in tennis or whatever they aspire to be,\u201d Jalloh said. He feels the Tiafoe effect in Africa will \u201cgo on for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jalloh insists tennis is more popular than many think in West Africa. He\u2019s seen enough courts in enough towns and cities and enough young hopefuls to make that claim.<\/p>\n

Some of the courts he\u2019s coached on are neatly marked out and surrounded by fences. Many aren\u2019t. Jalloh has made use of whatever he\u2019s found. Some are little more than cracked strips of concrete in between houses in poor, inner-city neighborhoods. Others are stretches of flat earth carved out of the wilderness outside town.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s here that Jalloh hopes Tiafoe\u2019s stirring performance at Flushing Meadows sparks something in tennis authorities in West Africa like it has in his young players.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we have the organization and the people with the passion, then you\u2019ll see a lot of talent come from Africa,\u201d Jalloh said.<\/p>\n

There have been positive signs in Sierra Leone in the past week. The national media, normally with eyes only for soccer, has taken notice of tennis and Tiafoe has received much praise.<\/p>\n

Fatima Bio, wife of Sierra Leone President Julius Bio, posted on her Facebook page about Tiafoe: \u201cYou are such an amazing guy and I want you to know we are celebrating you at home.\u201d Former Sierra Leone soccer captain Kai Kamara called Tiafoe \u201cone of us\u201d and said the country was behind him.<\/p>\n

Jalloh became aware of Tiafoe when he won the prestigious Orange Bowl junior tournament in Miami at the age of 15. Jalloh wanted to know more about the young talent with Sierra Leonean heritage and eventually became good friends with Tiafoe\u2019s dad. They speak often on the phone, Jalloh said, and were in contact this week as Frances Jr. blazed his trail at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

It has also reinvigorated Jalloh, whose own life story is quite extraordinary.<\/p>\n

Jalloh was born in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, one of 11 children and his parents gave him up for adoption at the age of 6 because they couldn\u2019t afford to keep him. He ran away from his adopted family and lived on the streets of Freetown before reuniting with his mother.<\/p>\n

He then found tennis and went from playing on the streets with his hand, and later homemade wooden bats, to a Sierra Leone national tennis player, which earned him $250 and a team tracksuit, his \u201cgreatest dream,\u201d he said.He now coaches players on the pro tour from his home in England and is already planning his next coaching trip to Africa. He\u2019s aiming to go to Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa at the end of the year and back to West Africa in early 2023, he said, with his tennis equipment and plenty of new video clips of Tiafoe.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh yes, I\u2019ve got so much now. I will have a lot to show to the kids,\u201d Jalloh said.<\/p>\n

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Imray reported from Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n

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