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Frances Tiafoe’s Life Goes Technicolor

A thunderous run to the semifinals at the 2022 U.S. Open changed Tiafoe’s life. Now the rising American tennis star wants more.

Frances Tiafoe celebrating after he defeated Shang Juncheng of China in their second-round match at the Australian Open.Credit...Aaron Favila/Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Let’s start with the outfit, that abstract-art-meets-silk-summer-pajamas-meets-Nike-tennis get-up that Frances Tiafoe is wearing at the Australian Open.

“They just told me it’s going to be outgoing and sleeveless, and I was like, ‘cool’,” Tiafoe said earlier this week after winning his first match in a rather nontraditional tennis kit.