I swear I'll stop talking about tennis in a second, lol, but like. Frances Tiafoe (who plays his semi-final tonight), his parents were immigrants from Sierra Leone escaping civil war. He was able to play tennis as a kid because his dad was a construction worker at a tennis facility, and meanwhile his mom was a nurse. And now he's a huge tennis star.
Compared to Jessica Pegula. Whose dad is a literal oil billionaire. A literal one percent of the one percenters.
This is the duality of American tennis. It's such a weird mix of ungodly amounts of wealth and also these really beautiful human stories of dedication, sacrifice, perseverance and talent.