Fred Thome
| Full name | Frederick Joseph Thome Bolaños | ||||||||
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| Country (sports) |  Costa Rica | ||||||||
| Born | 8 February 1966 | ||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||
| Career record | 2–2 (Davis Cup) | ||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||
| Career record | 5–2 (Davis Cup) | ||||||||
Medal record
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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]
References[edit]
- ^ "Fred Thome se agigantó en la Copa del Café". La Nación (in Spanish). 6 January 2014.
- ^ a b "'Mientras unos toman cerveza, mi hermano y yo jugamos tenis'". Diario Extra (in Spanish). 11 January 2014.
- ^ "Fred Thome Bolaños: De la raqueta hasta el avión". La Nación (in Spanish). 30 December 2002.
External links[edit]
- Fred Thome at the Davis Cup
- Fred Thome at the International Tennis Federation
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Costa Rican male tennis players
- Texas Longhorns men's tennis players
- Expatriate tennis players in the United States
- Tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games medalists in tennis
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Costa Rica
- Costa Rican people of Chilean descent
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games