At the Miami Open, it’s all about the tennis now for Frances Tiafoe and Hailey Baptiste

-area tennis center. And an even better day for a couple of players who have learned the hard way that tennis careers usually resemble the zig-zag contours of a heart-rate monitor, rather than a smooth, rising arc. Such are the fates of Frances Tiafoe and Hailey Baptiste, who grew up four years apart on the hard courts of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Md.

and make Florida their training

MIAMI — A good day for the Florida transplants. A really good day for a Washington, D. C.

-area tennis center. And an even better day for a couple of players who have learned the hard way that tennis careers usually resemble the zig-zag contours of a heart-rate monitor, rather than a smooth, rising arc. Such are the fates of Frances Tiafoe and Hailey Baptiste , who grew up four years apart on the hard courts of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Md.