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6.4 6.2 in first round qualifying in the Puerto Rico challenger. The other big match that took place yesterday
Tomic d Young
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Aussie Darcy
Bionic Poster
Jesus, to think that about 12 years ago these two were touted as the future of the ATP...
Djokodalerer31
Hall of Fame
Blame western media for that! They tend to overhype anyone younger than 25 and brand them the "future GOATS" of the game...LOL And it happens all the time over and over again...same mistakes...they never learn...
Kralingen
Talk Tennis Guru
Well they both won Junior Grand Slams and were the highest ranked 17 year olds in the world…
What in the world does “Western media” have to do with that lol
Djokodalerer31
Hall of Fame
because they dicatate the hype...everything that appears in western media hype campaign gets spread around the globe like a plague...one article says some kid is some kind of prodigy and 2nd Jesus coming and before you blink -it's all across the internet everwhere and in every article...this happens in western media, more so than any other and if you deny that - you haven't been paying any attention...
...they keep hyping up these kids like they are some kind of this new commerical L'oreal products or something, but then when reality is settled in - they suddenly drop them like nothing happened...
onyxrose81
Hall of Fame
Tomic was a better prospect than Young (the latter always seemed extremely underpowered and I knew he would struggle against actual men on the tour) but both never seemed like world beaters. That was media hype.
Georgepeppard007
Rookie
Tomic reached number 17 in the world and won 4 titles. Not bad actually.
Donald Young never won a title however.
Georgepeppard007
Rookie
Watch at 10:43. Nobody but Tomic hits a shot like that...lol.
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