Fred Thome

Frederick Joseph Thome Bolaños (born 8 February 1966) is a Costa Rican former tennis player.[1]

Fred Thome
Full nameFrederick Joseph Thome Bolaños
Country (sports) Costa Rica
Born (1966-02-08) 8 February 1966
Singles
Career record2–2 (Davis Cup)
Doubles
Career record5–2 (Davis Cup)
Medal record
Pan American Games
1987 IndianapolisMen's doubles

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
  1. "Fred Thome se agigantó en la Copa del Café". La Nación (in Spanish). 6 January 2014.
  2. "'Mientras unos toman cerveza, mi hermano y yo jugamos tenis'". Diario Extra (in Spanish). 11 January 2014.
  3. "Fred Thome Bolaños: De la raqueta hasta el avión". La Nación (in Spanish). 30 December 2002.
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