Young Tennis Stars Blaze Trail To Nottingham - LTA Tennis Nation

Young Tennis Stars Blaze Trail To Nottingham - LTA Tennis Nation--
With the French Open approaching, I thought this story about two 18-year-olds from France, now in the ATP Top 100, well-timed. Monfils was actually a late bloomer, compared to Gasquet, who finished 2002, aged 16, as the number one junior in the world. Monfils was 17 when he did the same last year. (Is there something in the Evian?)

And though attempts to find career parallels can be futile, it may be instructive to note that Gasquet had nearly as much attention in France as a junior as Donald Young does here now, with a great many of the same "youngest-this" and "youngest-thats". It has taken Gasquet two full years playing professional tennis to become a serious and consistent force on the tour, if in fact he is that. If an 18-year-old who had reached an ATP final could be considered disappointing, Gasquet was, such were the expectations for him. Now that he's beaten Federer, even more will be expected of him, but Monfils should assist in keeping the attention divided.