Rotterdam
\n Wawrinka, 40, downs Boogaard in historic ATP age gap clash in Rotterdam<\/p>\n
First-round match was second-biggest age gap in ATP Tour history<\/p>\n
February 11, 2026<\/p>\n
Alyssa van Heyst<\/p>\n
Stan Wawrinka won the Rotterdam title in 2015.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Stan Wawrinka<\/a> marked another memorable moment in his farewell season on Wednesday at the ABN AMRO Open<\/a> in Rotterdam, where he defeated 17-year-old Dutch lucky loser Thijs Boogaard<\/a> in the first round.<\/p>\n The 40-year-old Swiss star, who captured the ATP 500 title in 2015, downed Boogaard 6-4, 6-3 in a clash spanning more than two decades in age difference. The 23 years and three months separating Wawrinka and Boogaard now ranks as the second-largest age gap in ATP Tour and Grand Slam history, trailing only Dominic Thiem<\/a>\u2019s 2011 win over Thomas Muster<\/a> by two years and eight months.<\/p>\n Biggest age gaps on the ATP Tour (since 1990)<\/p>\n *Not including Davis Cup<\/p>\n Next up, Wawrinka will face top seed and two-time defending finalist Alex de Minaur<\/a>, promising another high-stakes encounter as the former No. 3 player in the PIF ATP Rankings continues his swan song on Tour.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a tough player,\u201d Wawrinka said of de Minaur, who leads their Lexus ATP Head2Head series 1-0. \u201cEspecially in these conditions, it\u2019s going to be difficult to generate something. But I\u2019m looking forward to the challenge. I\u2019ve been playing some good matches against top players, so I\u2019m always trying to push myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Wawrinka made headlines at the Australian Open<\/a> last month by becoming the oldest man to reach the third round of the hard-court major since Ken Rosewall<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotterdam Wawrinka, 40, downs Boogaard in historic ATP age gap clash in Rotterdam First-round match was second-biggest age…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-468439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}