James P
G.O.A.T.
Was looking at the stats that @helterskelter provides for the age of players per round, and it has become apparent that older players are fading quite a bit, but I didn't want to leave it at that without doing some diligence. So I created a table of all players 30 years old at the start of the season (ie born in 1990 or earlier) in 2020 and compared their rankings then and now. Keep in mind, it's actually harder than normal to move both up and down the rankings with Covid rankings starting in March of 2020 although we're getting closer to normal week by week. 30 players out of 41 have dropped, 3 have stayed the same, and only 8 have gone up. Of the 30 players that have dropped, 16 have dropped double digits, 5 have dropped 20 positions or more, 3 30 positions or more. Only Delbonis (+34) and Chardy (+16) have double digit improvements. Big faders in the top 30 include Fognini (17 to 29), Wawrinka (18 to 28), Lajovic (26 to 39), and Paire (28 to 46). Six players that were in the earlier top 100 have fallen out, Pablo Cuevas actually also fell out, but jumped back in a few weeks back. Meantime, youngsters like Lorenzo Musetti and Carlos Alcaraz have replaced some of these names. Anyway, it was interesting to see what's changed in 18 months.
Name | Nation | DOB | Rank 1-1-20 | Rank 6-7-21 (live) | Delta |
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Novak Djokovic | SRB | 05/22/87 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Rafael Nadal | ESP | 06/03/86 | 2 | 3 | -1 |
Roger Federer | SUI | 08/08/81 | 5 | 8 | -3 |
Gael Monfils | FRA | 09/01/86 | 11 | 16 | -5 |
Roberto Bautista Agut | ESP | 04/14/88 | 13 | 10 | +3 |
Milos Raonic | CAN | 12/27/90 | 14 | 18 | -4 |
David Goffin | BEL | 12/07/90 | 15 | 13 | +2 |
Fabio Fognini | ITA | 05/24/87 | 17 | 29 | -12 |
Stan Wawrinka | SUI | 03/28/85 | 18 | 28 | -10 |
John Isner | USA | 04/26/85 | 25 | 33 | -8 |
Dusan Lajovic | SRB | 06/30/90 | 26 | 39 | -13 |
Benoit Paire | FRA | 05/08/89 | 28 | 46 | -18 |
Daniel Evans | GBR | 05/23/90 | 32 | 25 | +7 |
Adrian Mannarino | FRA | 06/29/88 | 35 | 41 | -6 |
Jan-Lennard Struff | GER | 04/25/90 | 36 | 44 | -8 |
John Millman | AUS | 06/14/89 | 38 | 42 | -4 |
Kei Nishikori | JPN | 12/29/89 | 41 | 57 | -16 |
Marin Cilic | CRO | 09/28/88 | 42 | 45 | -3 |
Guido Pella | ARG | 05/17/90 | 43 | 62 | -19 |
Albert Ramos Vinolas | ESP | 01/17/88 | 46 | 37 | +9 |
Richard Gasquet | FRA | 06/18/86 | 47 | 54 | -7 |
Sam Querrey | USA | 10/07/87 | 53 | 66 | -13 |
Aljaz Bedene | SLO | 07/18/89 | 58 | 60 | -2 |
Pablo Andujar | ESP | 01/23/86 | 60 | 69 | -9 |
Vasek Pospisil | CAN | 06/23/90 | 61 | 64 | -3 |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | FRA | 04/17/85 | 62 | 80 | -18 |
Gilles Simon | FRA | 12/27/84 | 63 | 71 | -8 |
Feliciano Lopez | ESP | 09/20/81 | 64 | 63 | +1 |
Fernando Verdasco | ESP | 11/15/83 | 65 | 101 | -36 |
Pablo Cuevas | URU | 01/01/86 | 67 | 97 | -30 |
Ricardas Berankis | LTU | 06/21/90 | 69 | 84 | -15 |
Steve Johnson | USA | 12/24/89 | 72 | 72 | 0 |
Jeremy Chardy | FRA | 02/12/87 | 75 | 59 | +16 |
Kevin Anderson | RSA | 05/18/86 | 81 | 103 | -22 |
Federico Delbonis | ARG | 10/05/90 | 82 | 48 | +34 |
Norbert Gombos | SVK | 08/13/90 | 88 | 88 | 0 |
Mikhail Kukushkin | KAZ | 12/26/87 | 89 | 104 | -15 |
Joao Sousa | POR | 03/30/89 | 90 | 108 | -18 |
Attila Balazs | HUN | 09/27/88 | 92 | 112 | -20 |
Radu Albot | MDA | 11/11/89 | 93 | 90 | +3 |
Philipp Kohlschreiber | GER | 10/16/83 | 98 | 128 | -30 |