25.09.2006

[Bukmeikara]

Top 20

Federer - 25
Nadal - 20
Ljubicic - 27
Nalbandian - 24
Davydenko - 25
Roddick - 24
Robredo - 24
Baghdatis - 21
Blake- 27
Stepanek - 28
Ancic - 24
Gonzalez - 26
Berdych - 21
Haas - 28
Ferrer - 24
Murray - 19
Nieminen - 25
Ferrero - 26
Hewitt - 25
Gaudio - 28

Not a single player above 28!!! Today we have just 8 eight players younger than 29 and just looking at that stat IMO tennis will "suffer" probably it's biggest shift of generations with the upcoming sea of retirements in 2017-2018.

Fun fact - Andy Murray is above Novak Djokovic

An incredible fact - from those names only Nieminen didn't reach top 10.

 

[EdSWright]

Top 20

Federer - 25
Nadal - 20
Ljubicic - 27
Nalbandian - 24
Davydenko - 25
Roddick - 24
Robredo - 24
Baghdatis - 21
Blake- 27
Stepanek - 28
Ancic - 24
Gonzalez - 26
Berdych - 21
Haas - 28
Ferrer - 24
Murray - 19
Nieminen - 25
Ferrero - 26
Hewitt - 25
Gaudio - 28

Not a single player above 28!!! Today we have just 8 eight players younger than 29 and just looking at that stat IMO tennis will "suffer" probably it's biggest shift of generations with the upcoming sea of retirements in 2017-2018.

Fun fact - Andy Murray is above Novak Djokovic

An incredible fact - from those names only Nieminen didn't reach top 10.

Pretty amazing stats. When it comes to the young players, inexperience is the new brashness.

 

[Deleted member 688153]

Surface homogenisation = easier to be consistent = easier to keep winning = guys who aren't quite as good at winning keep winning = older guys keep winning.

 

[tacou]

The ages of those players is pretty interesting compared today. The whole top 10 are a bunch of '06 ljubicic's

 

[JRAJ1988]

Would you all agree or disagree that top 20 is stronger than that of today's?

 

[Kalin]

Would you all agree or disagree that top 20 is stronger than that of today's?

I think the 2006 is clearly stronger. Todays top 20 of course has Novack and Sir Andy and sometimes Wawa on top but then drops off like Rafa's form after clay season.

 

[Meles]

Would you all agree or disagree that top 20 is stronger than that of today's?

NO. Looks frighteningly bad after Nadal.

 

[mike danny]

NO. Looks frighteningly bad after Nadal.

How does the top 20 of today look stronger then?

 

[Meles]

How does the top 20 of today look stronger then?

The only respectable top player in slams outside of the top 2 is Roddick. Something fishy about Luby being 3 in the world. Davydenko looked strong at US Open, but really I'd put Nishikori up against him easily. If you look at slam resume and stage of career its a pretty sorry group (lots of has beens to wax nostalgic perhaps.) If you like has been tennis it was good times. Every one of those players was quickly on the ash heep except for Fedal and perhaps Roddick (I hate Roddick, so his presence in the top ten is like a negative, right up there with Berdy in my book, but I'm a Berdy/Roddick hater.) That top 20:

 

[swordtennis]

The only respectable top player in slams outside of the top 2 is Roddick. Something fishy about Luby being 3 in the world. Davydenko looked strong at US Open, but really I'd put Nishikori up against him easily. If you look at slam resume and stage of career its a pretty sorry group (lots of has beens to wax nostalgic perhaps.) If you like has been tennis it was good times. Every one of those players was quickly on the ash heep except for Fedal and perhaps Roddick (I hate Roddick, so his presence in the top ten is like a negative, right up there with Berdy in my book, but I'm a Berdy/Roddick hater.) That top 20: