The truth about Donald Young (tennis)

Donald Oliver young Jr born July 23rd 1989 is an american professional pickle ball player with the American League PPA and a tennis player Young had a career high ADP singles ranking of number 38 achieved on February 27th 2012 and doubles ranking of world number 43 achieved on August 14th 2017 as a junior he was ranked number one in the world in 2005 his best singles performance in the majors was reaching the fourth round of the 2011 Us open as well as the 2015 US Open in doubles he reached the final of the 2017 French Open partnering Santiago Gonzalez early life young began playing tennis at age three with Mother Alona and father Donald senior who are both tennis teaching professionals career Junior and early career in 2001 he came in second to Jesse LaVine in the US clay Court 14 Nationals in Fort Lauderdale Florida he was up 5 to Zer in the third set of the final young had lost the first set won the second and was leading 5 to Zer and serving for the match at 40-5 LaVine scored 23 consecutive points to defeat young 75 in 2003 young won the orange bull 16 under title defeating thraw becoming the first American to win that age division title since Jim Courier in 1986 he turned professional in 2004 he played ATP Tour Futures and Challenger events due to the slow start his handlers were often criticized for pushing him too fast during the early stages in 2004 young reached the Orange Bowl 18 under final lost to NYY he won the Easter Bowl 14th and 18th titles in 2003 and 2004 and was named as Davis Cup practice partner for the quarterfinal tie against Spain in 2007 young was in 2005 ranked the number one Junior player in the world young was the youngest male to win a grand slam event winning the Australian Open Junior Championships in 2005 young also won the US Open Junior doubles Championship with Alex Clayton in 2005 he became the youngest year- end world number one in junior rankings ever at 16 years 5 months one month younger than Rashard gase in 2002 young won the Australian Open Junior title at age 15 to become youngest ever and first African-American man to be ranked number one in the world he was also the first American to win the Australian Junior title and finish number one since Andy rodic in 2000 he Advanced to the semi-finals at Wimbledon and quarterfinals at the US Open in 2005 in doubles young won the junior US Open title with Clayton and reached the final at the Australian Open with themo backer in 2007 he won The Wimbledon Jr title and was the first American to win since Scott Humphries in 1994 as number one young won the Kalamazoo us Junior Championships in 2006 after Jesse line forfeited in the finals due to food poisoning 2007 breaking top 100 in January 2007 he reached the finals of a Futures tournament on the ITF men's circuit as well as winning a Futures title in April in July 2007 young won the junior Wimbledon title beating top seed Vladimir agnatic in the final no American won the championship again until Noah Rubin in 2014 shortly thereafter young won a Challenger Tournament and his ranking Rose sharply to number 221 his rank Rose sharply from number 92 to number seven on the ITF junior circuit as of July 13th 2007 after he won the junior Wimbledon championship he opted to play only some of the Grand Slam tournaments in 2007 and concentrate on playing professional events on August 19th 2007 young won his first ADP tour level singles match in the first round of New Haven he beat fellow American ammer delic in three sets in the following round he lost a tight three Setter to Russian Nikolai davidenko young then received a wild card into the main US Open draw on August 27th 2007 young defeated Australian Chris gone in the first round this was his first career victory in a grand slam match on August 30th young won his second round match by default it was against heavily favored opponent Rashard gase who had fallen ill during the tournament and officially withdrew after morning practice young fell in the third round to unseated Feliciano Lopez in four sets young carried the momentum into the fall making it to the finals of four Challenger tournaments and posting an overall fall record of 21 to7 on the Challenger circuit this was enough to hoist him into the top 100 on the ADP rankings he lost in the finals of the JSM Challenger in Champagne Illinois at the University of Illinois to Jesse LaVine his talents were recognized by the Association of tennis Professionals in December 2007 as for young was one of 11 honored in the 2007 Century Club 2008 breaking top 75 in the Australian Open young lost in the first round to Michael Burr in four sets there were much higher hopes for young as he made it to the quarterfinals of the tennis tournament in Memphis young defeated Sam warberg and Alejandra fa in the first and second rounds respectively before losing in a tough threet match to Jonas Berkman at Indian Wells young made it to the third round he defeated Bobby Reynolds in the first round then in the second round he took out 32nd seed Feliciano Lopez in three sets he lost to eventual Champion Rafael Nadal in the third round he lost in the first round of the French Open then lost a close fouret match in the first round at Wimbledon against Jesse LaVine at the Canadian open young won two preliminary matches to qualify for the tournament before dropping his first round match to Gillis Simon at the Countrywide classic in Los Angeles he defeated former world number two Tommy hos ranked number 40 at the time in the first round of the US Open young lost to James Blake in a five set Thriller he came back from down a break to win the fourth set although the final set was tied four to four with the help of two key calls overturned on challenges in the last two games Blake won young won the Sacramento Challenger Tournament on October 13th 2008 2009 young lost to Alejandra fa in qualifying for Wimbledon young received a wild card into 2009 leg Mason tennis classic in Washington DC he played against Leighton hwit who won the match in the qualifying competition for the 2009 US Open he won his first match against Marco krola in the second he beat guo aleso and he won his third round match against Lucas Russell to qualify in the first round of the main draw he was beaten by Tommy RDO he failed to qualify for the Thailand open however he received a lucky loser spot and had a first round by he lost in the second round to Andreas Beck young failed to qualify for the China open young lost to alah Bojack in the first round of the tiberon C Challenger on October 12th young played Luke senson in the first round of the Calabasas Challenger and won he then defeated Taylor dent and won his third round match against Luca Gregor he then defeated Michael Yanni and Michael Russell to win the Calabasas Challenger young won his first three matches at the Charlottesville V Challenger against Vincent spia Kevin Anderson and Dominic inlow young lost to Kevin Kim in the semi-final young defeated Jesse LaVine in the first round of the Knoxville tenen Challenger and Alex ketov in the second round young lost to griga zja in the quarterfinals young defeated Jack sock in the first round of the Wild Card Draw for the Australian Open he then lost to Ryan Harrison in the second round 2010 young defeated Christoff rockus in the first round of the 2010 Australian Open and was defeated in the second by Leighton Hugh it young defeated Tim smix in the first round of the Honolulu Challenger young then defeated Gregor demitro and Robert Kendrick he lost to Michael Russell in the semi-finals as he retired young failed to qualify in Memphis Del re Beach Indian Wells and Miami young received a wild card into the main draw of the US clay Championship but lost to Kevin Anderson in the first round young received a wild card into the Baton Rouge Challenger and defeated tatsuma Ido in the first round but lost to gooa in the second young young lost to carsten ball in the first round of the Tallahassee Challenger young defeated Greg wette in round one of the Savannah Challenger young then defeated ryler Dart and Cataline guard he lost to Ryan sweding in the semi-finals young lost to Joseph serani in the first round of the Sarasota Challenger he defeated Robert Kendrick in the final of La Tennis Open to win the Challenger and Leonardo Tavarez in the first round of the ohigh Challenger young then defeated danne Kelly and Luca Gregor he lost to Bobby Reynolds in the semi-finals young failed to qualify for Wimbledon young defeated Ryan Harrison in the first round of the wineka Challenger and then he defeated Simon staver and Lester Cook young lost to Tim smix in the semi-finals young defeated Greg Jones in the first round of the apus Challenger he then defeated ardam seac alah bjack and some Dev Dev verman young lost to marinko mvic in the final in the first round of the Atlanta ATP tournament young defeated dudy Sila but then lost to Kevin Anderson young failed to qualify for the leg Mason he lost to Ernest scbus in the first round in Cincinnati young defeated Sten Robert in the first round in New Haven before losing to W ignasio Cella in three sets young lost to Gillis Simon in the first round of the US Open young and partner Robert Kendrick won the doubles championship at the Virginia National Bank Challenger in November 2011 us opened fourth round top 40 young lost to Marin chillage in the first round of the 2011 Australian Open at the Indian Wells Masters 1,000 event he defeated his highest ranked opponent to date Andy Murray number four winning in straight sets in April young won the Tallahassee tennis Challenger he Advanced to the second round of the 2011 aegon International and the 2011 aegon championships young made it to his first ADP semi-final in August at the Washington DC ATP 500 event at the 2011 US Open young defeated LC Lao in the first round and in the second round world number 14 Stannis rinka in his first five- set victory in four hours and 21 minutes he Advanced to the third round in a Grand Slam Tournament for the first time in his career by defeating one ignasio Chala in straight sets young was defeated in the fourth round by Andy Murray in a reain delayed match at the start of October young triumphed over world number 14 gilmon feast in a come from behind thre setter before losing to Andy Murray in his first ADP final at the PT Thailand open he finished the year ranked in the top 40 at number 39 the highest year- end ranking in his career 2012 loss of form Olympics debut young went 17 matches without a victory during 2012 before defeating Leonardo Mayer at the 2012 Winston Salem open he competed in the men's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the US Open he was defeated by to seed Roger Federer in the first round 2013 Challenger tour success young failed to qualify for the 2013 Australian Open and for Wimbledon he did qualify for the US Open and won his firstr match against Martin klen Young won back-to-back ATP Challenger tournaments at Napa Valley in Sacramento during late September and early October 2014 two major third rounds Donald Young at the 2014 open a nice coat Desir young received a wild card into the 2014 Australian Open he eventually made it to the third round and thus reached a ranking of number 79 after the tournament young represented the United States in a first round Davis Cup tie against Great Britain he played one rubber and lost to Andy Murray in straight sets on Clay inside PCO Park young made it to the third round of the French Open eventually losing in five sets to guo Garcia Lopez young made it to the semi-finals of the Washington open losing to the top ranked Canadian Milos Ric 2015 US Open fourth round young reached the final in the delr Beach open his first ADP singles final since 2011 but lost in straight sets to Evo Carlovich in March young played Andy Murray in a Davis Cup tie and lost in four sets as well as losing to Murray again later in March in Miami at the US Open young became a darling of the American fans on route to matching his 2011 performance by reaching the round of 16 he notched dramatic come from behind victories against his first three opponents triumphing in the third round via a thrilling five- set victory over 22nd ranked Victor Troi he then lost to fifth seated Stan warena in four sets thus failing to advance to the quarterfinal stage which would have marked a new career best performance at a major prior to his final match of the tournament some of Young's shoes reportedly went missing from his locker inside the Billy Jean King national tennis center 2016 to 18 early success French Open Double's final young at Wimbledon in 201726 was an average year for young with his best performance coming at the hall of fame open with a semi-final appearance in early 2017 young young saw major success semi-final appearances at the delr Beach open and the Memphis open were followed up by fourth round appearances at Indian Wells and the Miami open these results pushed his ranking to number 42 at the French Open young partnered with Santiago Gonzalez resulting in a run to the finals he also registered 100 career singles victories in 2017 at the 2018 Australian Open he was the first round opponent for former world number one Novak jokovic despite fighting hard he was defeated in straight sets the US Open was his last major to date he lost in the first round to eventual finalist Juan Martin del poo in straight sets 2019 to 23 dip in form and rankings in 2019 young only registered two matches on the ATP Tour which both came in as losses throughout 2019 to 2022 his ranking would plummet all the way down to number 646 he entered the 20 21 Del Reay Beach opened qualifications as number 327 his lowest ranking since his early teenage years at number 335 on June 4th 2007 ranked number 646 he entered qualifying also at the 2022 Atlanta open as a wild card where he defeated e CJ J wolf before losing in the second round to Dominic kofer 2024 retirement young is scheduled to play his last match at the US Open partnering Taylor townsand in mixed doubles world team tennis young has played Four Seasons of world team tennis making his debut in 2016 with the Philadelphia freedoms and playing another two seasons for the freedoms in 2017 and 2019 it was announced he will be joining the Philadelphia freedoms during the 2020 wtt season set to begin July 12 he paired up with Fab Martin in men's doubles for the majority of the Season helping the freedoms earn a number one seed headed into the wtt playoffs the freedoms would ultimately fall in the semi-finals to the New York Empire who continued on to win the championship equipment he uses Dunlop now he is sponsored by boast for clothing and kswiss for Footwear