Young tennis talent from Sosúa is already in top 500 ATP
Recently, Nick Hard, a tennis talent from Sosúa, turned 18. As a junior player (under 18 years) he achieved 16th place in the ATP ranking. He now plays with the professionals who stand in the ranking between 700 and 300. Now he is already in 536th place after he has won another tournament in Santo Domingo. Sunday afternoon, December 30, he played demonstration games at the tennis court of Playa Chiquita in Sosúa.
Besides Nick Hard, also William Kirkman, Andrea Segarelli and Melvin Baez participated. An there were also some excellent young tennis talents participating in the event. Among others, there was a fantastic girl of 11 years and a boy of 13 years old, both from Russia, who really played very strong.
Nick Hard is a son of a Luxembourg father and Dominican mother and he is seen as the up and coming tennis talent for the Dominican Republic. Lucky for him, he has found some sponsors in Santo Domingo because the tennis sport is very expensive. Thanks to this sponsorship, he can go on training internship in the USA. He will soon play three professional tournaments in Florida. Then followed by a European tour in the summer where he will participate in a number of tennis tournaments. Nick also hopes to meet Roger Federer in Europe, because Federer is his hero.
Source: Sosua News
Jan 1, 2019
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