Five teenagers made their way through qualifying this week at the U.S. Open, doubling the number of teenagers in the men’s singles main draw and setting a 25-year high.
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According to Greg Sharko of ATP media, there were 12 teenagers in the main draw in 1990, including 19-year-old Champion Pete Sampras.
This year’s participants feature the highest-ranked teenager in the game today, Borna Coric. The rising Croatian is a World No. 35 and leads all teenagers in match wins with 22.
The next-highest teenager in terms of ranking is Aussie Thanasi Kokkinakis, who comes in at 70, while South Korea’s Hyeon Chung comes in at 71. Germany’s Alexander Zverev, who was one of the five teenagers to qualify, is currently ranked 81.
In addition to those four, Americans Jared Donaldson and Frances Tiafoe earned wild cards into the main draw, while 18-year-old Tommy Paul, this year’s French Open junior champion, earned a qualifying berth.
Yoshihito Nishioka, Andrey Rublev and Elias Ymer also earned qualifying slots.
Rublev, a Russian who is ranked 198, is the youngest player in the main draw at 17 years and ten months. Ymer, an 18-year-old Swede, has qualified for all four Grand Slams this year, becoming only the second player in history to achieve the feat (the other was Frank Dancevic in 2011).
Here are how the teenagers stack up in terms of ATP-level wins in 2015:
Coric, 22-22
Zverev, 13-13
Kokkinakis, 12-15
Chung, 9-7
Rublev, 5-7
Donaldson, 4-6
Ymer, 3-7
Nishioka, 2-3
Tiafoe, 1-4
Paul, 0-0
To see where the ATP’s young guns have landed in the main draw, click here