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)

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]

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