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69-Year-Old Ball Kid Turns Heads at Miami Open: ‘I Get Double Looks’

Remember Dylan Colaci? He first grabbed headlines in 2014 when Roger Federer casually flicked a ball his way, and the 14-year-old responded with a stunning one-handed catch. This year, at the Australian Open, now 24-year-old Dylan reunited with Federer to relive that magical moment. But in a remarkable twist, the spotlight at the ongoing Miami Open shifted to a 69-year-old ballkid, Maureen Olson, rewriting expectations entirely. “I outrun some o…

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Forget the stereotyped image of the young teenage shooter who recovers balls under the Florida sun. At the Miami Open, if you have seen grizzled hairs running towards the net it was not a hallucination due to the heat, but a senior ball boy team named "Silver Streak" that is rewriting the history of the tournament. If the younger ball racket is 13 years old, the older one is 71 and runs surprisingly faster than some people five times smaller. Te…

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Essentially Sports broke the news in on Sunday, March 29, 2026.
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