Prodigy From 4 Years Ago. [A Where-Are-They-Now Installment]

In light of the viral video about Gabby Price, our friend Guga points to another tennis prodigy that was crowned 4 years ago: Deiton Baughman.

Here's the promo video on local Fox News affiliate that reminded Guga of the Gabby price vid:
Deiton Baughman Video

Deiton appears to still be playing competitive tennis, but he is not the top dog in 18s. This just shows that the top kids at 9 and 12 years old are not necessarily the top at 18 and much less 24.

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Permalink Reply by CoachV - William Vazquez on December 12, 2012 at 9:15am

we all know what happened to Justin Gimelstob the former number 1 junior in the world. who played with ashway string ( crap strings )

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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on December 12, 2012 at 10:17am

Well, he became a TV announcer. Hehe

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Permalink Reply by CoachV - William Vazquez on December 12, 2012 at 1:12pm

Correction we all know what happened to his tennis career. even though i do have a loss to his brother.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on December 12, 2012 at 4:27pm

In September 2006 he had back surgery to remove two large disc fragments that were cutting off the nerves in his right leg.^[21] The injury was so bad that he had begun to lose feeling in his right leg.^[22]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Gimelstob

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Permalink Reply by Hal Wagner on December 12, 2012 at 4:34pm

Justin is a wimp, I had the same injury and still have disc material floating around my nerve canal, get some numbness is left foot occasionally. It is no fun, luckily I had a lot of room around my nerve so material doesn't pinch too much.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on December 13, 2012 at 2:32pm

Floating disc material in the nerve canal. That's scary!

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Permalink Reply by Hal Wagner on December 13, 2012 at 4:41pm

Yep, been able to play tennis, hoops, golf, softball for over 10 years with it in there, however it does shift occasionally and that shuts me down for a few days. I can tell when that is coming. Doc said if you are playing golf month after rupture we are not going in ti fish that stuff out.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on December 12, 2012 at 4:29pm

Deiton Baughman's 2012 results:

Dec 03	B18 GA	QF	Orange Bowl Int'l Tennis Championships, Plantation, FL(USA)
Nov 26	B18 G1	1/16	Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships, Bradenton, FL(USA)
Sep 24	Fut.	1/16	USA F26 Futures, Irvine, CA(USA)
Sep 10	Fut.	[Q]	USA F24 Futures, Claremont, CA(USA)
Sep 02	B18 GA	1/32	US Open, New York, NY(USA)
Aug 03	B18	1/8	USTA National Championships, Kalamazoo, MI(USA)
Jul 15	B18	SF	National Clay Court Championships, Delray Beach, FL(USA)
Jul 02	B18	Win.	USTA National Open, Lakewood, CA(USA)
May 12	B18	1/8	USTA National Open, Lakewood, CA(USA)
Apr 09	B18 GB1	1/16	Easter Bowl ITF, Rancho Mirage, CA(USA)
Apr 02	B18 G1	1/16	USTA International Spring Championships, Carson, CA(USA)
Mar 26	B18 G4	F	USTA ITF Claremont, CA, Claremont, CA(USA)
Mar 19	Fut.	[Q]	USA F8 Futures, Costa Mesa, CA(USA)
Feb 25	B18	1/16	USTA National Open, Palm Desert, CA(USA)