The first match of Stan Wawrinka at the ATP 500 Rotterdam will not be remembered for its score, 6-3, 6-4 for the Swiss, but it left an anecdote that now becomes part of tennis history. Wawrinka, at 40 years old, faced the 17-year-old Dutch player Thijs Boogaard, marking the second biggest age gap in a tennis match since 1990. The first belongs to another Grand Slam champion, Dominic Thiem, who, at 18 years old, defeated fellow Austrian Thomas Muster (44), in the ATP Vienna 2011.
🇨🇭 Stan Wawrinka (40y 320d) is playing against 🇳🇱 Thijs Boogaard (17y 220d) at @ABNAMROOpen
— TennisMyLife (@TennisMyLife68) February 11, 2026
📊 Age gap: 23 years, 100 days – the second biggest since 1990
🔹 Open Era record: 🇺🇸 John Whitlinger (23y 3d) vs Gardnar Mulloy (63y 77d) → gap: 40 years, 74 days pic.twitter.com/wgJjZtmUxL
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