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5 Year Old Phenom Jan Silva


Watch this 35 second video and see if you can get your head around a 5 year old playing this kind of tennis. According to this USA Today article:

Five-year-old tennis phenom Jan Kristian Silva lives and trains at a tennis academy in France with all of his family's expenses paid. Patrick Mouratoglou, the owner of the academy, is spending an estimated $140,000 a year on the Silvas in hopes that Jan becomes a star.
Saw Jan on the Today Show this morning and couldn't help but dream a bit of the future of tennis. Here's hoping that he will live out his dreams and not those of the adults in his life.
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  1. AnonymousAugust 3, 2007 at 9:38:00 AM CDT

    Here's hoping that he will live out his dreams and not those of the adults in his life.

    Spot on!

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  2. Kevin KnoxAugust 3, 2007 at 10:23:00 PM CDT

    Over at Peter Bodo's Tennis World, they had a huge discussion about this kid. A couple of people got a little belligerent. Finally, it was revealed that the guy defending the parent was - the father.

    It was a fascinating discussion. I'm trying my best to find a link to it, but the site is not indexed by Google, and it's internal search feature is disabled.

    If you head over there now, though, you can check on some breaking allegations of match fixing by the world #4 tennis player. Tough stuff.
    http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennisworld/

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  3. Kevin KnoxAugust 3, 2007 at 10:26:00 PM CDT

    Discussion:
    http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennisworld/2007/02/x_1.html

    Wrap up:
    http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennisworld/2007/02/x_2.html

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