defeated four-time champion Rafael Nadal with 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 respectively, to reach US Open quarterfinals.
who had been chasing his 23rd Grand Slam Title has been beaten in a major for the first time this year.
in his career after 2019 Australian Open Tiafoe qualified for any major Grand Slam Tournament.
against Nadal was the biggest American man victory at the US Open since 2005, when James Blake defeated the then-World No. 2 Spaniard.
His parents emigrated from Sierra Leone, West Africa to the United States during the civil war of the 1990s. His father was a custodian at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in suburban Washington DC.
is the youngest American man who has made it this far at the US Open, since Andy Roddick in 2006. He is also the first American man to make it to the quarterfinals of the US Open since John Isner in 2018.
this year is the second major after 2005 without Federer, Djokovic & Nadal in the quarterfinals. Another was the 2020 US Open, where Federer and Nadal didn't play and Djokovic was defaulted against Pablo Carreno Busta.