One of the things all juniors players who come to the US Open mention after their first matches here is how loud it is.

On the outside courts, where all boys and girls matches are played, there is a cacophony of sound: people talking, sponsors running booths for kids and, most of all, the constant music that thrums through the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Some players hate it. Others like it a lot.

Jeline Vandromme is in the second camp. But that might be because she’s been making music herself, on the tennis court but equally as importantly, off of it.

The native of Bruges, Belgium is the 14th seed here at the US Open Junior Championships, and has cruised through her first two matches, the latest being a Monday triumph over Kamonwan Yodpetch, 6-3 6-2, to advance to the third round.

Until two years ago, when she stopped to focus exclusively on her tennis, Vandromme was a trained classical pianist. A student at the Conservatory of Bruges, Vandromme loved to play piano and is good at it.

If a tennis match ever comes down to who can play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony better, put your money on the Belgian.

“You have to be disciplined in both things, and you have to practice a lot, every day,” the 17-year-old said. “I don’t know for sure that piano helps tennis, but I love playing both.”       

Vandromme has had an outstanding season, in both juniors and pro women’s tennis. As a junior, she’s reached No. 4 in the ITF World Tennis Tour girls' rankings April and reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open Junior Championships, winning the J300 Traralgon warm-up in January.

As a pro, Vandromme has entered several W15 and W35 events in 2025, winning two W15s in Tunisia in August and winning W35 Roehampton in early August.

In all, Vandromme has won an astounding 19 consecutive singles matches she’s played.

“In my last 15K I played against two juniors, so I think the women’s level I played is comparable to top juniors,” Vandromme said. “And the 35 and the 50s, everybody is very good and the level is a little bit higher.”

Vandromme started playing tennis thanks to her older siblings, Justine and Justin, but Corine Blondeel, Vandromme’s mother, said getting Jeline to play tennis wasn’t easy.

 “She didn’t really love it that much, we had to motivate her,” Blondeel said. “But we could see pretty quickly that she had a talent for it.”

Vandromme expects that this US Open will be the final junior tournament she competes in, but both she and Blondeel say they don’t get caught up in dreams of a pro future.

“We’ll see how things go naturally, take it day by day, because she’s still very young,” Blondeel said.

Obviously the success of tennis legends Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters has shown Belgium can certainly produce top talent, though Vandromme said she was too young to have watched them play.

“I really like the game style of [Aryna] Sabalenka, her passion and her grit,” Vandromme said. “And Iga [Swiatek], her footwork and how good she is on all surfaces.”

Vandromme is pretty good on all surfaces, too, even ones that contain the black and white keys of a piano.

She’s just a few wins away from completing her latest and most impressive tennis symphony.

A full list of results from the 2025 US Open Junior Championships can be found here.