Fred Thome Explained

Fred Thome
Fullname:Frederick Joseph Thome Bolaños
Birth Date:8 February 1966
Singlesrecord:2–2 (Davis Cup)
Doublesrecord:5–2 (Davis Cup)
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Frederick Joseph Thome Bolaños (born 8 February 1966) is a Costa Rican former tennis player.[1]

Thome is of Chilean descent on his mother's side of the family. His grandfather, Hernán Bolaños, was a footballer for the national side who played for the Audax Italiano club in Chile and married a local.[2]

A runner-up at the Coffee Bowl in 1984, Thome is the elder brother of his Davis Cup teammate Kenneth. The pair teamed up together to win a bronze medal in doubles at the 1987 Pan American Games, which was Costa Rica's first ever Pan American Games tennis medal.[3] Between 1990 and 1994 he appeared in nine Davis Cup ties, winning two singles and five doubles rubbers.

Thome, now a US based airline executive, played college tennis while studying at the University of Texas at Austin.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Fred Thome se agigantó en la Copa del Café . . 6 January 2014 . es-LA.
  2. News: 'Mientras unos toman cerveza, mi hermano y yo jugamos tenis' . . 11 January 2014 . ES.
  3. News: Fred Thome Bolaños: De la raqueta hasta el avión . . 30 December 2002 . es-LA.