Sam Aliassime: Tennis Beyond Borders
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 25, 2023
Once upon a time, there was a young man who lived in Togo, a small West African nation flanked by Ghana and Benin.
Like all his friends, the young man wanted to be great on the soccer field, but his coach told him he didn’t play well enough with his left foot.
So the young man turned to tennis.
In the decades since then, Sam Aliassime has passed his love of tennis on to his son—now a card-carrying member of the ATP Top 10—and built an acclaimed tennis academy . . .
