At what age did Djokovic start playing tennis?
Djokovic began playing tennis at the age of four, after his parents gave him a mini-racket and a soft foam ball, which his father claimed became "the most beloved toy in his life". His parents then sent him to a tennis camp in Novi Sad.
Feeling that Federer had outgrown the Ciba club and needed to be amongst better juniors, his mother Lynette enrolled him at age eight in the elite junior programme of the Old Boys Tennis Club in Basel, where he received his initial tennis instruction from veteran Czech coach Adolf Kacovsky.
Rafael began playing tennis at age four, guided by another uncle, Toni Nadal, who remained his coach on the professional tour. In his early years, Nadal (who wrote with his right hand) played left-handed tennis with both a two-handed forehand and backhand.
She started playing tennis at age 4 after she, sister Venus Williams and their family moved to Compton, California. Their parents, Richard Williams and Oracene Price, coached the girls in the sport. When Serena was 9, they relocated to West Palm Beach, Florida, so she and Venus could receive further instruction.
Djokovic eclipsed his own mark for the oldest player to top the ATP at the end of a season; he was 34 in 2021. His eight year-end No. 1s put him two ahead of previous record-holder Pete Sampras, who did it six times.
Murray started playing tennis at the age of three with his Mum, Judy Murray. By the age of five he had already started competing and at 12-years-old, he won the Orange Bowl - one of the most prestigious junior events in the world.
2005. Just days after celebrating his 19th birthday, Nadal became the youngest male Grand Slam champion for 15 years as he took his first major title with victory at Roland Garros. Nadal defeated world No. 1 Roger Federer at the semi-final stage, before seeing off unseeded Mariano Puerta in the showpiece match.
Junior career
Kyrgios played his first junior match in 2008 at the age of 13 at a grade 4 tournament in Australia. He won his first ITF junior tour title in Fiji in June 2010, aged 15. He started to compete more regularly on the junior tour in 2011, making his junior grand slam debut at the 2011 Australian Open.
Early Years
At the age of eight, Nadal won an under-12 regional tennis championship, giving his Uncle Toni the incentive to step up his training. Toni noticed at the time that Nadal played his forehand shots with two hands, so he encouraged him to play left-handed, thinking it could give Nadal an edge on the court.
Tennis has no age limit Leonid Stanislavsky, 98, and Henry Young, 99, took to.
When did Coco Gauff start playing tennis?
She started playing tennis at age 6.
While Coco's dad originally wanted her to be a basketball player like him, she didn't like the sport and began playing tennis at 6 years old after seeing Serena Williams win the 2009 Australian Open.
Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, but was raised in Los Angeles, where she learned tennis from her father on public courts. She turned professional in 1995, when she was 14 years old.
1995–1996. Williams's first professional event was in October 1995, at the age of 14, at the Bell Challenge in Quebec City. She lost in the first round of qualifying to world no. 149 Annie Miller in less than an hour of play and earned US$240 in prize money.
2003–2005: Start of professional career
At age 16, he finished 2003 ranked world No. 687. On 11 April 2004, the 16-year-old Djokovic earned his first official ATP victory when he defeated No. 1340 Janis Skroderis 6–2, 6–2 in a dead rubber held in Belgrade during a Davis Cup tie between Serbia & Montenegro and Latvia.
After winning his maiden major title in 2008, many expected the-then 20-year-old would quickly add to his Grand Slam tally. Yet the Serbian was made to wait as he failed to reach the final in any of his next 10 Slam appearances before he advanced to the title match at the 2010 US Open.
The tennis star is a father of two children, son Stefan Djokovic and daughter Tara Djokovic, who he shares with wife Jelena. The couple, who were high school sweethearts, got married in 2014, and welcomed their son Stefan in October that year.
All together, Djokovic has a reported net worth of £178.8 million, an ample amount - funnily enough - to buy every one of the 125 million tennis balls made every year in the US. And who would bet against his total being over £180 million by the end of this week?
Michael Chang holds the overall record, the American winning the 1989 French Open at the age of 17 and three months, a tournament memorable for his bizarre victory over world number one Ivan Lendl, when the youngster moon-balled, served underarm and generally did everything possible to put the unflappable Lendl off his ...
How old was Rafael when he won Wimbledon?
And when it ended, Nadal, 24, marked his victory with a celebratory somersault. That endless energy, and so many superb strokes, allowed the No. 2-seeded Nadal to outclass No. 12 Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 Sunday for his second Wimbledon trophy and eighth Grand Slam title overall.
Borg won Wimbledon in 1976 without losing a set, defeating the favored Ilie Năstase in the final. Borg became the youngest male Wimbledon champion of the modern era at 20 years and 1 month (a record subsequently broken by Boris Becker, who won Wimbledon aged 17 in 1985).
And speaking of fast things, Kyrgios and his girlfriend Costeen Hatzi also like their private jets. The pair have posted pictures of themselves in front of private planes on their way to incredible holidays, like their last trip to Exuma in the Bahamas.
