This is the new 14-year-old tennis wunderkind

Surname and you It is hardly the same in the world of tennis, even for those who study or are passionate about every detail of this sport. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) recalled that he won his first professional ranking point in just 14 years and 2 months.

Performance records in grassroots sports are sometimes a warning sign of the qualities of a future star, but often they are misleading because the jump to the pros leaves many promising on the road, few selected that eventually they became shoulders. their discipline is great.

The recent positive cases are Spanish Carlos Alcarazwho at 14 years and 9 months old achieved his first professional victory at the ITF Spain F5 in Murcia, and the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassimewho at 14 and 6 months old has already achieved success in the third category of professional tennis, the first step to move later to the ATP Challenger and eventually access the ATP Tour.

The Murcian is No. 1, the North American went through the top-10. Burgos occupies square 294 Nicolas Alvarez Varona, who as a child knew professional success at 14 years and 4 months. It has not had the development of Alcaraz or Auger-Aliassime.

The new child prodigy hails from the Netherlands. At 14 years and 11 months old, she defeated her compatriot in her ITF debut stian klassenunranked, although he later retired against the Sander Jong939th ATP.

This data is placed in the showcase Thijs Boogaard, who came from the junior circuit, dominated 30 games in a row, including the higher category title in the category.

An ITF J300, formerly called Grade 1. At 14 they’ve done it too Auger-Aliassime, Alcaraz or Gael Monfils.

So far this season, on the under-18 circuit he has accumulated 21 wins and 6 losses. He is a boy who will be 15 years old on July 5, in the middle of Wimbledon, a tournament in which he is classified in the junior box. He prepares it for a previous grass event.

It attracts the attention of specialists, it has already been signed by the representation company IMG, including olivier van lindonk looking after his interests as he had done those Garbine Muguruza, Daniil Medvedev or Kei Nishikori.

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Boogaard he is champion of Les Petits As, individual and doubles, as well as a double European sub-14 winner.

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Wimbledon will see the new Dutch phenomenon on its tracks. In juniors at Roland Garros he did not go past the second round, although Alcaraz also had a traumatic experience in the under-18s in Paris, at a later age, and nothing happened.

Aim high Thijs Boogaard. Time will tell.