Avoiding NW6 until 30 isn't bad? Are you joking? He has very aggressive early onset male pattern baldness. He should not have hair that bad at his age. He is like many of us on this forum, very unlucky, the vast majority of men do not lose that much hair before hitting 30. If he was 50 it would be a different story. On the other hand, he doesn't appear to be receding at all, it seems like he's a pure diffuse thinner. I wonder what minoxidil and finasteride could do for him? Are there rules against tennis players taking finasteride?