Player Bio

Desiderius began playing tennis at around the age of 10, much too late to ever consider going pro, but just in time for the pre-teen hormones to kick in. Tennis it was rumoured, was the sport of choice for gentlemen, playboys, and liberal femme fetales alike. In reality though, he found that the local public courts were home to 40 year olds of shady character who still lived with their parents and smoked-up in public. Although the kilt clad Catholic girls he knew from school that also frequented the courts did provide enough incentive to return to the place daily, they were still a few years short from being the liberated women of tennis myth mentioned above...if they already were, they sure hid it well from him.

Finding few of the rumours to be true at least at the public courts, Desiderius began to focus on the game itself and the quest for the perfect tan. By 2000, he opted for playing at an organized club down the street. There he quickly established himself as one of the elite young stars, rising through the ranks of the league teams and completing a string of 5 consecutive semifinal appearances in the Club Championships, without ever winning or making it to the finals (a record that still stands), before fading into tennis obscurity...but then, in 2006...