Aaron Krickstein

Aaron Krickstein ( born August 2, 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan ) is a former American professional tennis player. He became known in the 1980s by early successes. He is the youngest player to win a single competition of an ATP tournament. He also reached the youngest player a Top 10 ranking in the tennis world rankings.

Already at the beginning of his career made ​​Krickstein 1983 in Tel Aviv for attention. At the age of 16 years and two months, he was the youngest winner in the individual competition of a tournament of the ATP. As before, he is the youngest winner of an ATP tournament. Also so far is unsurpassed be reaching the Top 10 in the world rankings at the age of 17, which he reached in 1984 for the first time. He reached the highest position on the tennis world rankings in 1990 ranked 6th in his career, he won nine tournaments in men's singles. In total he won in singles and doubles prize money of approximately U.S. $ 3.7 million.

Aaron Krickstein is the uncle of the golfer Morgan Pressel, which he occasionally acted as caddy. So Krickstein was going to qualified than Pressel became the youngest player in history with 12 years for the U.S. Open.

Tournament Win

He holds the record of being the youngest winner of a professional tennis tournament at age 16.

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