VIDEO : US Tennis Player Named Tennys Says He Is Not Alt-Right

(CNN)Before this month's Australian Open, Tennys Sandgren mostly received attention because of his name. He is indeed a tennis player. But as he made the second week in Melbourne and his profile grew, so did the number of inquiring minds keen to learn more about the 26-year-old from Tennessee. As people scrolled through the world No. 97's Twitter feed, a social media storm began to brew.