Moose Malloy
G.O.A.T.
Looks like the men's QF lineup is the oldest at W since 1970 if my math is correct (though last years QFs was pretty old as well..)
Hmmm. Your data is off. Denis is in the Round of 32 at the USO for second year in a row. He was 18 last year.I've done this for the last few Slams. Here it is this time:
21: Hyeon Chung, Karen Khachanov
22: Kyle Edmund
23: Jiri Vesely, Dominic Thiem, Lucas Pouille
24: Diego Schwartzman
25: Pablo Carreno Busta, Nikoloz Basilashvili
26: Milos Raonic, Grigor Dimitrov, David Goffin
27: Kei Nishikori, Steve Johnson
28: Juan Martin Del Potro, Marin Cilic
29: Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Roberto Bautista Agut
30: Andy Murray, Fabio Fognini, Richard Gasquet [turns 31 in June], Gael Monfils, Rafael Nadal [turns 31 on Saturday], Novak Djokovic
31: Pablo Cuevas, Kevin Anderson
32: Horacio Zeballos, Stan Wawrinka, John Isner
33: Fernando Verdasco, Guillermo Garcia Lopez [turns 34 on Sunday]
35: Feliciano Lopez
By age category:
Teenagers: 0
20-24: 7
25-29: 11
30-34: 13
35+: 1
Hmmm. Your data is off. Denis is in the Round of 32 at the USO for second year in a row. He was 18 last year.
Men R16:
21: Coric
24: Thiem [turns 25 on Monday]
26: Basilashvili
27: Raonic, Goffin
28: Nishikori
29: Del Potro, Cilic, Sousa, Millman
31: Djokovic
32: Nadal, Anderson
33: Isner
34: Kohlschreiber
37: Federer
Teenagers: 0
20-24: 2
25-29: 8
30-34: 5
35+: 1
To understand better what this means we need to know how many in each age bracket started the tournament.
Stephens is only 25. I did not imagine she is still so young after being around for years.Women R16:
19: Vondrousova
20: Sabalenka, Osaka
22: Barty, Mertens
23: Svitolina, Keys
25: Stephens
26: Pliskova
28: Sevastova
29: Suarez Navarro [turns 30 on Wednesday], Cibulkova, Tsurenko
31: Sharapova
33: Kanepi
36: S. Williams
By range:
Teenagers: 1
20-24: 6
25-29: 6
30-34: 2
35+: 1
Coric
Thiem
Goffin
Nishikori
Sousa
Millman
So 1 of these guys has to win this tournament so someone under 30 will be an active slam champ...
Lmao
To understand better what this means we need to know how many in each age bracket started the tournament.
Wow. 10 of 32 age 24 and under. That's pretty good and if you included 25 that would outnumber 26-29 and 30+.And here's the US Open 2018:
Men:
19: Shapovalov, De Minaur
20: Fritz
21: Coric, Zverev
22: Khachanov, Medvedev
23: Kyrgios
24: Thiem [turns 25 on Monday], Pouille
26: Basilashvili, Schwartzman
27: Raonic, Goffin
28: Pella, Lajovic, Struff, Nishikori
29: Del Potro, Cilic, Sousa, Millman
30: Kukushkin
31: Djokovic
32: Nadal, Anderson, Gasquet
33: Isner, Wawrinka
34: Verdasco, Kohlschreiber
37: Federer
Teenagers: 2
20-24: 8
25-29: 12
30-34: 9
35+: 1
Incidentally, if any of the 30-somethings win, that will be two years in a row of all Slams being won by a 30-something.
And if any of the 30-somethings or Del Potro or Cilic (both of whom turn 30 later in September) win, then by the end of September, no man younger than 30 will have won a Slam in his career. (Sousa and Millman don't turn 30 until 2019).
Wow. 10 of 32 age 24 and under. That's pretty good and if you included 25 that would outnumber 26-29 and 30+.![]()
Wow so Nadal is the 2nd oldest player left in the draw after Federer? And Djokovic is right behind them xD?So, here we are for Australian Open 2019.
Men:
19: Shapovalov, Popyrin, De Minaur
20: Tsitsipas, Tiafoe [turns 21 on Sunday]
21: Zverev, Fritz
22: Medvedev, Coric, Khachanov
24: Pouille
26: Bolt, Krajinovic, Basilashvili, Schwartzman
27: Carreno Busta, Herbert, Dimitrov
28: Goffin, Raonic
29: Sousa, Nishikori, Fabbiano
30: Cilic, Bautista Agut
31: Djokovic, Fognini
32: Nadal
33: Berdych
34: Seppi
35: Verdasco
37: Federer
Good showing for the younger players, but mostly they are lumped in the top half. Tsitsipas and Tiafoe are the only ones under 27 left in the bottom half.
Wow so Nadal is the 2nd oldest player left in the draw after Federer? And Djokovic is right behind them xD?
NextGen getting by on default retirements of older players.
Verdasco, Seppi, Berdych, Agut and Fognini.
All five of those guys made round three, though, and three are still in, two of them through to round 4. Not a bad showing, especially for Berdych, who is returning from injury.
Also, I would put Agut in a different category. Not only is he a year younger than Fognini, and three or more years younger than the others, but he was such a late developer, that he has relatively little mileage for a player who is almost 31. His breakout Slam was only five years ago (AO 2014), and he hadn't done that much at tour level until a year or so before then. By contrast, Berdych won a masters in 2005, and even Verdasco had his golden moment 10 years ago. Time on tour and matches played is a big factor in wear and tear, as well as years lived on the planet!
Round 4 Men:
20: Tsitsipas,
21: Tiafoe [turns 21 Sunday = today in Australia already], Zverev
22: Medvedev, Coric
24: Pouille
27: Carreno Busta, Dimitrov
28: Raonic
29: Nishikori
30: Cilic, Bautista Agut
31: Djokovic
32: Nadal
33: Berdych
37: Federer
By bracket:
Teenagers: 0
20-24: 6
25-29: 4 {!}
30-34: 5
35+: 1
First time in a while, I believe, that the plurality age bracket has been 20-24. However, still half of the field is 28+ and half is 27 or less.
How is the 32+ category looking over time ?
where is NYTA?This does not surprise me at all.
In rec tennis, the other you are, the better you are.
My biggest crushing defeats have come from players older than 60.
They are easily the best 4.0 players around.
Young guy? Either a pusher or a maniac.
Old guy? Does not give away any free points.
I would like to see winner's ages from USTA Nationals at the 3.5 and 4.0 level.
I predict all of them are over 50.
And the women:
18: Catherine Bellis
19: Jelena Ostapenko [turns 20 on Thursday]
20: Daria Kasatkina
21: Elise Mertens
22: Yulia Putintseva, Ons Jabeur, Elina Svitolina, Carina Witthoeft
23: Garbine Muguruza, Caroline Garcia
24: Shelby Rogers, Kristina Mladenovic
25: Magda Linette, Simona Halep, Veronica Cepede Royg, Karolina Pliskova
26: Caroline Wozniacki, Petra Martic
27: Timea Bacsinszky [turns 28 on Thursday], Anastasija Sevastova, Alize Cornet, Mariana Duque-Marino
28: Lesia Tsurenko, Shuai Zhang, Carla Suarez Navarro, Agnieszka Radwanska
30: Elena Vesnina
31: Svetlana Kuznetsova, Su-Wei Hsieh
32: Bethanie Mattek-Sands
33: Samantha Stosur
36: Venus Williams
Teenagers: 2
20-24: 10
25-29: 14
30-34: 5
35+: 1
Aliza Cornet is 29 year old! I am a fan of hers!