Aging Men's field

[nehmeth]

I didn't know that. Are you Canadian, herios?

Why did you think I am rooting for Milos? For his hair style??

uzzled :nono

 

[herios]

I didn't know that. Are you Canadian, herios?

Why did you think I am rooting for Milos? For his hair style??

uzzled :nono

:lolz:
Initially I wanted to say "rooting for his peculiar nostrils", but I changed my mind thinking nehmeth will have something to pick on...

 

[El Dude]

I am not buying into your theory, just to let you know. The arrival of 3-4 more talented teenagers will not make the tour as a whole younger.
Even here at RG, the lone qualifier who made the 3 round is a guy Martin, who is 26, closing on the top 100 for the first time.

I missed this. It isn't merely the arrival of 3-4 teenagers, but the waves of talent. Eventually Generation Federer will be phased out - it has been happening for years now, although there's still a group of stalwarts. But even there we're starting to see the beginning of the end for Ferrer, Lopez, Robredo, Youzhny and old Federer himself.

The next generation, the very talented 1984-88 group, is aging (turning 28-32 this year) and will keep the tour pretty old for awhile, but unless the 89-93 group is packed full of late-bloomers, once the Nadal-Djokovic group starts phasing out in a few years, the tour will jump to a much younger level. Consider the age of the current generations at the end of 2020:

The 1979-83 generation will be 37-41 and almost entirely retired, with maybe one or two holdouts.
The 1984-88 generation will be 32-36 and many retired; those who aren't, will likely be in decline. But I imagine that a lot of these guys will still be around and in the top 100, just not many in the top 20.
The 1989-93 generation will be 27-31. Maybe these guys are late-bloomers and peak at this point, or maybe they decline alongside the older generation. I suspect the latter.
The 1994-98 generation will be 22-26 and peaking, dominating the tour in both results and rankings.

The point being, it might take a few years, but the tour will get younger, if only because the 89-93 generation isn't as talented as the 94-98 generation, and will be pushed out sooner.

My point is the late blooming will become a rule, not an exception. I am standing by it. In a few years, you will agree with me.

Haha, I don't disagree with you now, but what you disagreed with me above is my theory that the tour will get younger again. Late-blooming is a separate, if related, question. And yeah, I think players are blooming a bit later and the tour is older than it was. That is obvious. But what i said above is that it will get younger, although I didn't say how much younger...certainly not like it was back in the 80s and 90s, but younger than it is now.

 

[sid]

How about this on Aging Men's field.

Say Andy Murray won RG & AO he would beat Nole to all 4 slams.I'd p*ss myself laughing if this became true.

 

[herios]

Denis Shapovalov is a player I recently came across who looks quite promising, in my opinion. He just turned 17 in April (born 1999!) and is ranked #400 right now. He'll probably be more interesting to follow next year. Aliassime too, but he's a couple years away from the top 200.

Regarding these two young teenagers, I am keeping a close eye on them, especially because both are Canadians.
I would also mention that both have made already waves, last year when they won together the USO boys doubles final.

I didn't know that. Are you Canadian, herios?

Anyhow, both are into the fourth round in the boys' singles.

Only third round. Some of the second round are yet to be played.