Could this 5-year-old be the future of tennis?

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Could this 5-year-old be the future of tennis?
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, ... found this 7/30/2007 on www.usatoday.com [flag]
At one point, he laces a one-handed, topspin cross-court shot against his hitting partner, who lunges in vain. Jan curls his arm to punctuate the winner with what else? a fist pump. "He's really playing to win," beams his father, Scott Silva. "There's ice cream on the line." Jan, or "Jani" as his parents call him, is 5. He also is the central player in an experiment that goes well beyond what ... [link]

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Tennis academy breeding five-year old demon children
Published 7/30/2007 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... It’s not exactly Tim Floyd signing taking a verbal commitment from an eighth grader … well, actually, it’s worse: five-year-old Jan Silva — yes, five years old — is the latest addition to Mouratoglou Tennis Academy near Paris. That little monster is the youngest player in the academy by a long shot, so young even IMG Academy in Florida felt uncomfortable taking him in. ...

Look in the mirror, mom and dad
Published 7/31/2007 by The Truth at Warrior Sports News
... Check out this little tennis phenom, Jan Kristian Silva, and you can predict where he's going to go. ...

Short People: Childhood's End
Published 7/31/2007 by Rick at Deadspin
... What were you doing when you were five? (My answer revolves around cartoons and mud). Sacramento-area native Jan Silva is attending a tennis academy in France, all expenses paid. In fact, the academy's owner, Patrick Mouratoglou, will pay an estimated $140,000 this year to train him. Did I mention that Silva is five? ...

Just Let Him Be Five
Published 8/1/2007 by Marco at Just Call Me Juice
... Saw this story in USA Today about a 5-year-old attending a $140,000 tennis camp in France. Is there any chance that this kid is going to have normal life? I'm going between 0% and 5%. Not with attention starved parents like that. Ask Michelle Wie how being pushed into athletic stardom at the expense of childhood is working out for her these days. Sometimes I think stories like this are about as bad for sports as players taking steroids. ...

Parents of the Year?
Published 8/1/2007 by SportsGirl365 at Strike Zones and End Zones
So this story has been in a couple of places and commented on by my far superior fellow sports bloggers (namely ...