Unrecognized unique! The best under-18 tennis player in the world is the rising Czech Comet

A Czech fan can never get tired of that look. The best player on the planet under the age of 18 is Linda Fruhvirtová, her sister Brenda is second, Sára Bejlek secures the Czech supremacy from the fourth position, in the eleventh or Lucie Havlíčková and Nikola Bartůňková are in twelfth place. Czech tennis has no competition in the world in this regard.

And looking at the senior ranking is also worth it. There are nine Czechs in the elite hundred, only the United States has more. But the records are not over. The youngest tennis player in the TOP 50 is 18-year-old Linda Nosková, the youngest player in the top 100 is Linda Fruhvirtová, a year younger, the 52nd player in the world.

“It shows that we have a unique, sophisticated, unique system for working with youth. Even with a budget a hundred times smaller, we have three times as many juniors in the top 100 as France,” the head of Czech and European tennis, Ivo, told Sport.cz some time ago Hairdresser.

However, Czech men also go on the attack. After a fantastic run to the Australian Open quarterfinals, Jiří Lehečka is in 53rd place, and Tomáš Macháč has already peeked into the top 100. Both tennis players also played a major role in the progress of the Czech team through Portugal to the final tournament of the Davis Cup. In addition to the seasoned Adam Pavlásk, newcomer Jakub Menšík kept them company in the team.

The Prostejov native already had a fantastic season last season. “My goal was to get into the top eight hundred players in the world, I ended the year in the fourth hundred. This is significantly above the plan,” cheered the seventeen-year-old, who ended the year with an incredible streak of fifteen wins in a row and three tournament triumphs at smaller ITF events.

“My game and results have improved, so there is great satisfaction. Next year, I would like to take a peek into the world of challengers,” the junior Australian Open finalist from last year was making plans for this year’s season.

Menšík, who spent a week at the Serbian training center last year at the invitation of world number one Novak Djokovic, is ranked 389th and is the youngest tennis player in the world with such a high ranking.