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By Giri Nathan
[vc_empty_space height="15px"]Teens! They’re at it again. By “it” I do not mean vaping on TikTok. I mean gunning for big titles, on both professional tennis tours. And last week they wound up either doing exactly that or getting pretty damn close. It wasn’t the usual suspects, either. For all the heaped-up anticipation, it wasn’t Felix Auger Aliassime, who, two months into 2020, has already appeared in and lost the fourth and fifth finals of his young career. He’ll get ’em eventually; he still has five more months before his teen credential is revoked anyway. And it wasn’t 15-year-old Coco Gauff, who hasn’t played a pro match since her fourth-round Australian Open run, due to age-based restrictions on the number of events she can play. (And who, in any case, already snagged her first WTA title in Linz last fall, which is wild.)