Red Raiders ink Thomas Van Den Dooren..
The Texas Tech men’s tennis team has signed Thomas Van Den Dooren to its roster for the fall as announced on Monday afternoon by head coach Michael Breler.
“Coach Wynn and I are very excited to be able to add Thomas to our program this fall. Thomas is coming out of France as a top-ranked player in his age group and has a big powerful game that we think will translate really well at the highest level of college tennis,” Coach Breler said. “Thomas impressed us a lot in the recruiting process not just with his tennis and desire to grow as a player but as a person as well and we believe he will fit right into the culture we want to build here at Texas Tech. We cannot wait to get him on campus in August and to see what he can accomplish in the Red Raider uniform.”
Van Den Dooren is a native of Thiais, Val-de-Marne, France, who was ranked as high as No. 605 in the ITF junior rankings and trained at Istres Sports Tennis. The future Red Raider has won two ITF junior doubles titles, his first coming at the J30 Abidjan in October 2023. In this tournament, he would defeat three different doubles teams and only dropped one set en route to the title.
Van Den Dooren followed this up with another doubles championship at the J30 Le Pontet in March 2024, where he and his partner took down three more pairs to win the trophy. Once again, he only dropped one set in the competition. Since June 2023, Van Den Dooren has been a doubles semifinalist at ITF tournaments twice and a quarterfinalist three times.
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