Little over a year ago, Jacob Fearnley was unranked in the professional tennis world. Now he is among the top 100 after one of the fastest climbs in ATP history.
Little over a year ago, the 23-year-old Briton was unranked in the professional tennis world.This week, Fearnley has moved into the world's top 100 on the ATP Tour - a significant landmark dangling the carrot of direct entry into the blue-riband Grand Slam events."It's come a little bit quicker than I, the rest of the people around me - and probably everyone - thought. I'm aware this isn't the norm.
"I also didn't feel ready mentally to play tennis. I wanted five years to develop my game, develop as a person, socialise and meet new people." "College tennis is a very emotional form of tennis. There is a lot more energy from the players and other teams," Devin Bowen, assistant coach of men's tennis at TCU, told BBC Sport.
From knockarounds in the backyard with a bat and ball aged two, he progressed to honing his skills on courts near his home in Dalkeith. While there were notable wins against Grand Slam champions Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in his junior days, Fearnley's teenage development was a slow-burner.
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