PHILIP HOSTRUP ALLERUP
My Tennis Story
Since I was very small I had always played football, but it was not my thing, so my mother took me to a tennis training in Roskilde where I had lived all my life and I loved it from the first time.
I started playing when I was around 8-9 years old and thought the club I played in was the coolest. I always had a lot of friends and good coaches, so I played in the same club from the first training.
When I was in the 6th class as it is called in Denmark there was there a possibility to move to a school where you could have morning training and go to class with only other athletes. Moving to this school was a really good decision. I moved there in the 7th grade.
At the end of the 7th class, there was the Danish championships in foam tennis, which I had always loved and thought it was really fun. I won it, it was really cool and gave me lots of confidence. I started to train tennis every day and really work hard. A year later I had to think about what I was going to do after the primary school and I immediately thought of tennis, so I applied for money in Roskilde municipality and got 10,000 Danish kroner to visit two academies here in Spain. I was in Malaga at the Soto tennis academy and here at the Barcelona Tennis Academy. I spent 3 days in each academy and then I had to decide where I wanted to go. I ended up here and it was a really good decision.
When I had come home after the experience I knew next year would be really great and now I have to train hard and have fun with tennis, so I play really well.
I'm 15 years old now and my best ranking is number 10-15 in Denmark in my age group, so I am really proud of it.
I have always known tennis was what I am supposed to do, so I played lots of tournaments and won a lot of them. It went really well and then in the spring of 2024 I slipped and had to go to hospital. It turned out my wrist was broken, so I played for a month in a cast hitting a one-handed backhand and slice. After the cast had been removed, it took me quite a while before I could play again. So it was a really tough period, but I got over it quickly.
Then there was an ITF in Denmark, so I signed up to play it and was really excited to see the level. I had a really nice match; unfortunately, I lost but it was fun to try it. And then I've won SM, it's called like that because it's the part of Denmark I'm from. I played it with my team that featured 5 players from Denmark's best clubs, so it was really big for us.
I left school in the summer and had a month off before I had to go down here to Spain and now I hope to become a really good tennis player and that I will continue to love the sport.