Round of 32 by age

Wimbledon 2022, Women's Singles 3rd Round

18: Gauff
19: Zheng, Parry
20: Anisimova
21: Swiatek, Juvan
22: Niemeier
23: Rybakina, Bouzkova
24: Badosa, Frech, Tan
25: Boulter, Ostapenko
26: Krejcikova, Mertens, Sakkari
27: Jabeur
28: Pegula, Garcia
29: Tomljanovic
30: Halep, Watson
31: Martic, Riske [turns 32 on 3 July, the day of her 4th round match, if she makes it], Begu
32: Cornet, Kvitova
33: Zhang, Tsurenko
34: Kerber, Maria

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 3
20-24: 9
25-29: 9
30-34: 11 [!]
 
Wimbledon 2022, Men's Singles 3rd Round

19: Alcaraz
20: Sinner, Nakashima
21: Brooksby
22: Kecmanovic
23: De Minaur, Tsitsipas
24: Humbert [turned 24 on June 26, the day before the tournament began], Tiafoe, Molcan, Fritz
25: Van Rijthoven, Bublik, Paul
26: Norrie, Garin, Galan, Van de Zandschulp
27: Kyrgios, Sonego
28: Otte, Vesely [turns 29 on July 10, the day of the final], Broady
29: Kubler, Sock
30: Basilashvili
31: Goffin
32: Johnson
35: Djokovic
36: Gasquet, Nadal
37: Isner

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 1
20-24: 10
25-29: 14
30-34: 3
35-39: 4
 
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Wimbledon 2022, Men's Singles 3rd Round

19: Alcaraz
20: Sinner, Nakashima
21: Brooksby
22: Kecmanovic
23: Garin, Tsitsipas
24: Humbert [turned 24 on June 26, the day before the tournament began], Tiafoe, Molcan, Fritz
25: Van Rijthoven, Bublik, Paul
26: Norrie, Garin, Galan, Van de Zandschulp
27: Kyrgios, Sonego
28: Otte, Vesely [turns 29 on July 10, the day of the final], Broady
29: Kubler, Sock
30: Basilashvili
31: Goffin
32: Johnson
35: Djokovic
36: Gasquet, Nadal
37: Isner

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 1
20-24: 10
25-29: 14
30-34: 3
35-39: 4

finally what seems like a normal distribution.
 
Wimbledon 2022, Women's Singles 4th Round

20: Anisimova
22: Niemeier
23: Rybakina, Bouzkova
24: Badosa, Tan
25: Ostapenko
26: Mertens
27: Jabeur
28: Garcia
29: Tomljanovic
30: Halep, Watson
31: Martic
32: Cornet
34: Maria

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 0
20-24: 6
25-29: 5
30-34: 5
 
Wimbledon 2022, Men's Singles 4th Round

19: Alcaraz
20: Sinner, Nakashima
23: De Minaur
24: Tiafoe, Fritz
25: Van Rijthoven, Paul
26: Norrie, Garin, Van de Zandschulp
27: Kyrgios
29: Kubler
31: Goffin
35: Djokovic
36: Nadal

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 1
20-24: 5
25-29: 7
30-34: 1
35-39: 2
 
Wimbledon 2022, Women's Singles Quarter-Finals

20: Anisimova
22: Niemeier
23: Rybakina, Bouzkova
27: Jabeur
29: Tomljanovic
30: Halep
34: Maria

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 0
20-24: 4
25-29: 2
30-34: 2
 
Wimbledon 2022, Men's Singles Quarter-Finals

20: Sinner
24: Fritz
26: Norrie, Garin
27: Kyrgios
31: Goffin
35: Djokovic
36: Nadal

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 0
20-24: 2
25-29: 3
30-34: 1
35-39: 2
 
Wimbledon 2022, Women's Singles Semi-Finals

23: Rybakina
27: Jabeur
30: Halep
34: Maria

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 0
20-24: 1
25-29: 1
30-34: 2
 
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Wimbledon 2022, Men's Singles Semi-Finals

26: Norrie
27: Kyrgios
35: Djokovic
36: Nadal

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 0
20-24: 0
25-29: 2
30-34: 0
35-39: 2
 
Couldn't do this for the US Open 2022 because of a work trip, and it was the first time a teen won a men's singles slam in more than 17 years and only the second time in 32 years. So, for the sake of accuracy, here it is in one, as I prepare for the Australian Open 2023 write-ups later this week.

US Open 2022, Men's Singles

3rd Round


19: Alcaraz, Rune
20: Draper, Musetti
21: Nakashima, Sinner, Brooksby
22: Wu
23: Wolf, De Minaur, Davidovich Fokina, Moutet, Ruud, Shapovalov
24: Rublev, Tiafoe
25: Paul
26: Medvedev, Khachanov, Galan, Berrettini
27: Kyrgios, Cachin, Norrie
28: Ivashka
30: Schwartzman
31: Carreno Busta
32: Evans
33: Cilic
35: Murray
36: Gasquet, Nadal

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 2
20-24: 14 (!)
25-29: 9
30-34: 4
35-39: 3

4th Round

19: Alcaraz
21: Sinner
23: Davidovich Fokina, Moutet, Ruud
24: Rublev, Tiafoe
26: Medvedev, Khachanov, Berrettini
27: Kyrgios, Norrie
28: Ivashka
31: Carreno Busta
33: Cilic
36: Nadal

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 6
25-29: 6
30-34: 2
35-39: 1

Quarter-Finals

19: Alcaraz
21: Sinner
23: Ruud
24: Rublev, Tiafoe
26: Khachanov, Berrettini
27: Kyrgios

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 4
25-29: 3
30-34: 0
35-39: 0

Semi-Finals

19: Alcaraz
23: Ruud
24: Tiafoe
26: Khachanov

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 2
25-29: 1
30-34: 0
35-39: 0

Final

19: Alcaraz
23: Ruud

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 1
25-29: 0
30-34: 0
35-39: 0
 
And the women's event:

US Open 2022, Women's Singles 3rd Round

18: Gauff
19: Zheng
21: Swiatek, Burel, Wang
22: Andreescu
23: Niemeier, Yuan, Samsonova
24: Sabalenka, Galfi
25: Bencic, Kudermetova
27: Keys
28: Davis, Muguruza, Pegula, Collins, Garcia, Jabeur
29: Rogers, Krunic, Tomljanovic
30: Pliskova
31: Martic, Marino
32: Kvitova, Cornet, Riske-Amritraj
33: Azarenka, Zhang
40: S. Williams

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 2
20-24: 9
25-29: 12
30-34: 8
35-39: 0
40-44: 1

4th Round

18: Gauff
21: Swiatek
23: Niemeier, Samsonova
24: Sabalenka
25: Kudermetova
28: Pegula, Collins, Garcia, Jabeur
29: Tomljanovic
30: Pliskova
32: Kvitova, Riske-Amritraj
33: Azarenka, Zhang

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 4
25-29: 6
30-34: 5
35-39: 0
40-44: 0

Quarter-Finals

18: Gauff
21: Swiatek
24: Sabalenka
28: Pegula, Garcia, Jabeur
29: Tomljanovic
30: Pliskova

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 2
25-29: 4
30-34: 1
35-39: 0
40-44: 0

Semi-Finals

21: Swiatek
24: Sabalenka
28: Garcia, Jabeur

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 2
25-29: 2
30-34: 0
35-39: 0
40-44: 0

Final

21: Swiatek
28: Jabeur

By Age Bracket:

15-19: 0
20-24: 1
25-29: 1
30-34: 0
35-39: 0
40-44: 0
 
Younger players are doing better again since the pandemic started. Yet my age brackets are a bit wonky. For example, at the Australian Open, only seven of the last 64 men were aged 21 or younger: Shang (17), Rune (19), Svrcina (20), Shelton (20), Nijikata (21), Sinner (21), and Lehecka (21). And Nijikata turns 22 next month. Of those seven, three already lost in round 2 (Shang, Svrcina, and Nijikata). So, there will be at most four men aged 21 or younger in the last 32. (Sinner is already through, and Lehecka ahead. Rune and Shelton play tomorrow. Rune will probably win. Shelton has good chances, but Jarry is no gimme, so Rune might well end up the only man aged 20 or younger in the last 32).

Putting 20 and 21-year-olds in the same category with 22-24 year olds might obscure as much as it reveals.
 
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Jonas78

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And i was told 35 was the new 25, and that a teenager never would win a GS again because "tennis has become too physical". Lol.

I always thought mean age would drop like a stone when Big4 was done, because of a strong Nadal/Djoko generation and a Lost Generation after them. Seems to come through
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Younger players are doing better again since the pandemic started. Yet my age brackets are a bit wonky. For example, at the Australian Open, only seven of the last 64 men were aged 21 or younger: Shang (17), Rune (19), Svrcina (20), Shelton (20), Nijikata (21), Sinner (21), and Lehecka (21). And Nijikata turns 22 next month. Of those seven, three already lost in round 2 (Shang, Svrcina, and Nijikata). So, there will be at most four men aged 21 or younger in the last 32. (Sinner is already through, and Lehecka ahead. Rune and Shelton play tomorrow. Rune will probably win. Shelton has good chances, but Jarry is no gimme, so Rune might well end up the only man aged 20 or younger in the last 32).

Putting 20 and 21-year-olds in the same category with 22-24 year olds might obscure as much as it reveals.

Why not break it down into 3-year categories on the ATP side? There's an argument to be made that Sinner is closer to FAA/Brooksby than Rune, for example.

18-20:
21-23:
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And i was told 35 was the new 25, and that a teenager never would win a GS again because "tennis has become too physical". Lol.

I always thought mean age would drop like a stone when Big4 was done, because of a strong Nadal/Djoko generation and a Lost Generation after them. Seems to come through

I still think you're largely seeing what you want to see. As my post about the very low number of players under the age of 22 shows, there really has been a change that is not just about the big four. Of course, that doesn't mean that there wasn't a weaker crop of players, but to deny that the tour has changed in age at all seems to me very perverse. One teenager won a slam - but he did so in the absence of Djokovic, of course. That's not a pattern. You're treating as an either/or what's a both/and. (It's not "either the tour has aged or there are a weak crop of players," but "the tour has aged and there's a weak crop of players").
 

Jonas78

Legend
I still think you're largely seeing what you want to see. As my post about the very low number of players under the age of 22 shows, there really has been a change that is not just about the big four. Of course, that doesn't mean that there wasn't a weaker crop of players, but to deny that the tour has changed in age at all seems to me very perverse. One teenager won a slam - but he did so in the absence of Djokovic, of course. That's not a pattern. You're treating as an either/or what's a both/and. (It's not "either the tour has aged or there are a weak crop of players," but "the tour has aged and there's a weak crop of players").
Well the 89-95 LostGen are mostly absent (Dimitrov, Goffin, Nishikori, Raonic, Thiem), so most top players are now born 96+. Djokovic more or less last man standing unless Nadal rises once more. Its a siginificant drop in mean age compared to some years ago. ATP top 10 is all players 19-25y except Nadal/Djoko. It will be interesting to see if youngsters FAA, Sinner, Alcaraz, Ruud will already take over for Med, Zed, Tsits, Rublev etc.

Im not denying the tour has aged when you look at for example top100, because surgery, nutrition etc has improved, so players can have longer careers. My main point is that peak age hasnt changed, which i think top10 now shows. Its quite remarkable that you have no players beween age 25 and Djokovic.

19y olds winning slams has never been a pattern, but many people were denying the weak LostGen, and argued 30-35 was the new peak age because of a changed playing style, and that 19y olds winning would never happen again. Well it happened.
 
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Well the 89-95 LostGen are mostly absent (Dimitrov, Goffin, Nishikori, Raonic, Thiem), so most top players are now born 96+. Djokovic more or less last man standing unless Nadal rises once more. Its a siginificant drop in mean age compared to some years ago. ATP top 10 is all players 19-25y except Nadal/Djoko. It will be interesting to see if youngsters FAA, Sinner, Alcaraz, Ruud will already take over for Med, Zed, Tsits, Rublev etc.

Im not denying the tour has aged when you look at for example top100, because surgery, nutrition etc has improved, so players can have longer careers. My main point is that peak age hasnt changed, which i think top10 now shows. Its quite remarkable that you have no players beween age 25 and Djokovic.

19y olds winning slams has never been a pattern, but many people were denying the weak LostGen, and argued 30-35 was the new peak age because of a changed playing style, and that 19y olds winning would never happen again. Well it happened.

Of course there is something to what you're saying but I think you're making it too black and white and I think that's probably because you want to defend Federer's legacy against those of Nadal and Djokovic. I'm not really concerned with goat debates.

It's the second paragraph with which I most strongly disagree. I think that the top 100 tells us much more about peak age than does the top 10. I also think it's very clear that the peak age has shifted upwards by a few years. Not by as much as some said, but by a few years. This is a phenomenon that goes well beyond men's tennis. In the women's event, for example, 12 of the 16 players so far through to round 3 are 25 or older. This is a very clear change from the past patterns.

Teenagers winning slams and making the upper echelons of the rankings was fairly common in the 80s. It has become much harder for younger players than it was. Of the top 100, only four (Alcaraz, Rune, Shelton, and Musetti - who turns 21 on 3 March) are aged 20 or younger and only four are aged 21. So, 92 of the top 100 are 22 or older. This is a change from the past. Actually, teenagers no longer being competitive is a change that happened long ago - as early as the 1990s - and has been fairly stable since then. So, yes, the mean age has dropped a bit since 2020 but it is still much higher than it was in the 1980s and somewhat higher than in the 1990s or 2000s. Players in their mid 20s have indeed become dominant again, but players younger than that are still only occasionally competitive. Alcaraz and Rune have done very well indeed, but we saw in their absence (plus that of Sinner) that the field at the NextGen finals was actually considerably weaker than in the previous few years. Looking at the young players in the rankings, it doesn't seem as though there is a huge bumper crop coming through below the top 100, either. At older ages, there have been plenty of players doing decently well in their early 30s in recent years - even last year, Cilic made a Roland Garros semi (for the first time). It's not just the big three/four/five.

I'm not denying that there was a weak generation of players. I'm denying that that's all there is to it. Of course, it's inevitable that when a group of players goes on a long time, there will then seem to be a marked shift to a younger generation, because the players who are by then middle aged haven't become as great as they could have done, and so there's a power vacuum. The same thing happened in the early 2000s. The real test will be in a few years, when the likes of Medvedev et al get nearer to 30, or into their 30s, to see whether they can be competitive or not.

So, rather than spending more time debating this now, why don't we just leave it a few years and see what happens? I'll try to keep updating this thread. It's been a labour of love for a few years now, so I imagine I'll keep going. :)
 

travlerajm

Talk Tennis Guru
Of course there is something to what you're saying but I think you're making it too black and white and I think that's probably because you want to defend Federer's legacy against those of Nadal and Djokovic. I'm not really concerned with goat debates.

It's the second paragraph with which I most strongly disagree. I think that the top 100 tells us much more about peak age than does the top 10. I also think it's very clear that the peak age has shifted upwards by a few years. Not by as much as some said, but by a few years. This is a phenomenon that goes well beyond men's tennis. In the women's event, for example, 12 of the 16 players so far through to round 3 are 25 or older. This is a very clear change from the past patterns.

Teenagers winning slams and making the upper echelons of the rankings was fairly common in the 80s. It has become much harder for younger players than it was. Of the top 100, only four (Alcaraz, Rune, Shelton, and Musetti - who turns 21 on 3 March) are aged 20 or younger and only four are aged 21. So, 92 of the top 100 are 22 or older. This is a change from the past. Actually, teenagers no longer being competitive is a change that happened long ago - as early as the 1990s - and has been fairly stable since then. So, yes, the mean age has dropped a bit since 2020 but it is still much higher than it was in the 1980s and somewhat higher than in the 1990s or 2000s. Players in their mid 20s have indeed become dominant again, but players younger than that are still only occasionally competitive. Alcaraz and Rune have done very well indeed, but we saw in their absence (plus that of Sinner) that the field at the NextGen finals was actually considerably weaker than in the previous few years. Looking at the young players in the rankings, it doesn't seem as though there is a huge bumper crop coming through below the top 100, either. At older ages, there have been plenty of players doing decently well in their early 30s in recent years - even last year, Cilic made a Roland Garros semi (for the first time). It's not just the big three/four/five.

I'm not denying that there was a weak generation of players. I'm denying that that's all there is to it. Of course, it's inevitable that when a group of players goes on a long time, there will then seem to be a marked shift to a younger generation, because the players who are by then middle aged haven't become as great as they could have done, and so there's a power vacuum. The same thing happened in the early 2000s. The real test will be in a few years, when the likes of Medvedev et al get nearer to 30, or into their 30s, to see whether they can be competitive or not.

So, rather than spending more time debating this now, why don't we just leave it a few years and see what happens? I'll try to keep updating this thread. It's been a labour of love for a few years now, so I imagine I'll keep going. :)
I’d be interested to see a chart of mean age of final 32 on y axis vs slams over time. Could average all 4 slams each year together to reduce noise and see overall signal.
 
There are four teenagers ranked between 101 and 200 right now (but only one ranked between 201 and 300, and while there are six ranked between 301 and 400, they are all 19 and that's not that high a ranking for a 19-year-old. The one teen ranked between 201 and 300 is also 19).

So, after Alcaraz and Rune turn 20 in the first week of May and last week of April, respectively, we might well go back to not seeing teens being competitive for a while. That said, there are 10 teens in the 401-500 range in the rankings, including two 17-year-olds and one 18-year-old (although the 18-year-old turns 19 on 12 March). So, those players might come through in time, but it'd probably need a year or two.

Anyway, here are the four teens in the 101-200 range:

1. Luca van Assche (rank 143, age 18 - born 11 May 2004). I know he's been thought to have considerable potential, but he's only 5'10" according to the ATP and he only weighs 154 lbs. So, he might be a Goffin-type player. He did take Norrie to a tiebreak at the Australian Open this week but then lost 6-7 0-6 3-6.
2. Luca Nardi (rank 162, age 19 - born 6 August 2003). He almost qualified for the Next Gen finals and I was disappointed he didn't, but his ranking has dipped since then. He lost in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Open and I just saw that he lost in a challenger this week, too. So, he's going in the wrong direction, but this could just be a blip and he has lots of time ahead of him.
3. Juncheng Shang (rank 194, age 17 - born 2 February 2005). He qualified for the Australian Open and won his first round match against Otte. He did lose 4-6 4-6 1-6 against Tiafoe today, but that's still a very good performance for him considering he doesn't even turn 18 for another couple of weeks. So, he seems highly promising - the only issue is that someone posted on a Meles thread that he is actually two years older than he claims to be and is faking his age. No idea whether there is any reason to believe that, though. If he really is not quite 18, then he's probably the most promising teen after Alcaraz and Rune. One issue is that he's only 5'11" and 162 lbs, but he might grow a bit more - especially if he's the age he says he is - and could bulk up. I gather he's mostly a retriever but players can go a long way with that style.
4. Arthur Fils (rank 195, age 18 - born 12 June 2004). Not that high a rank for someone aged 18.5, but I think he might be more promising than Nardi and van Assche. Looking forward to seeing him develop. He won a challenger in the first week of the year that saw him rise from 252 in the rankings to break the top 200. The only top 200 player he beat was Ricardas Berankis, though.
 
I’d be interested to see a chart of mean age of final 32 on y axis vs slams over time. Could average all 4 slams each year together to reduce noise and see overall signal.

It would be interesting, but it's not really my forte. Plus the ages I give probably contain too much inaccuracy, as I don't include months within it and only note when someone is about to change age if their birthday is during the tournament itself. (E.g. as you'll see on Friday, I note that Tiafoe turns 25 on Friday, so he'll play his 3rd round match as a 25-year-old but he made round 3 as a 24-year-old).

Tennis Abstract has records of players by ranking by age that shows a pretty clear upswing over the years, although it's started to come down again since 2021. (As soon as the tour resumed in August 2020, it was clear that a lot of older players were going to drop off considerably after the six-month break. But the Covid rankings insulated them from the effect of that until 2021).
 

travlerajm

Talk Tennis Guru
Stepping aside big picture.

If the overall average level of players were to be relatively constant over time, followed by a steep dropoff from one Gen to another, and then stay constant at the new lower level, what would that look like graphically?

The answer is that you would see a rise in the average age of top players, with the elevated age sustained during the period of level decline, then a decay back to the original average age. That’s exactly what we see.
 

Aabye5

G.O.A.T.
Stepping aside big picture.

If the overall average level of players were to be relatively constant over time, followed by a steep dropoff from one Gen to another, and then stay constant at the new lower level, what would that look like graphically?

The answer is that you would see a rise in the average age of top players, with the elevated age sustained during the period of level decline, then a decay back to the original average age. That’s exactly what we see.

Eh, but why did we see a rise in the average age of top players? Should we see more consistency from players like Cilic, for example?
 
Stepping aside big picture.

If the overall average level of players were to be relatively constant over time, followed by a steep dropoff from one Gen to another, and then stay constant at the new lower level, what would that look like graphically?

The answer is that you would see a rise in the average age of top players, with the elevated age sustained during the period of level decline, then a decay back to the original average age. That’s exactly what we see.

But I don't think it is what we see. It might be at the very top of the game, but not across the tour as a whole, which has aged. It just isn't the case that only four players in the top 100 being 21 or younger is how things used to be on tour.

That said, yes, one thing I said to Jonas is that the current reduction in age was always likely as a result of the previous ageing. This is true regardless of quality.
 
Australian Open 2023, Women's Singles 3rd Round

17: Fruhvirtova
18: Gauff
20: Kostyuk
21: Swiatek, Volynets
22: Gracheva
23: Rybakina, Vondrousova
24: Sabalenka
25: Bucsa, Ostapenko, Kalinina, Bencic
26: Vekic
27: Krejcikova, Keys, Sakkari, Mertens
28: Baindl, Pera, Pegula, Zhu [turns 29 on 28 January, the day of the final], Alexandrova
29: Collins, Garcia
30: Pliskova, Linette
31: Giorgi, Parrizas Diaz
33: Azarenka, Zhang [turns 34 on 21 January, the day of her 3rd round match]
34: Siegemund

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 2
20-24: 7
25-29: 16
30-34: 7

Old women's field (with the obvious notable exceptions of Gauff and Swiatek): 23 of 32 are 25 or older; 18 of 32 are 27 or older. I think it illustrates well the ageing of the tours not being "just about the big three".

N.B. Ages given as of 20 January, the day the third round begins. Zhang's birthday is 21 January, so she's given as 33, despite being 34 when she plays her 3rd round match.
 
Australian Open 2023, Men's Singles 3rd Round

19: Rune
20: Shelton
21: Sinner, Lehecka
22: Korda, Auger-Aliassime, Brooksby
23: Shapovalov, De Minaur, Popyrin
24: Tsitsipas, Cerundolo, Humbert, Wolf
25: Tiafoe [turns 25 on 20 January, the day of his 3rd round match], Hurkacz, Rublev, Mmoh, Paul
26: Khachanov, Medvedev, Griekspoor, Bonzi
27: McDonald, Nishioka, Norrie
30: Fucsovics
31: Dimitrov
32: Evans
34: Bautista Agut
35: Djokovic, Murray

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 13
25-29: 12
30-34: 4
35-39: 2

Men's field obviously younger than the women's, but I still think it's a markedly older overall age profile than when I was growing up (started following tennis in 1986, "came of age" - e.g. turned 18 - in 1996). Back then, I think it'd have been normal to have more than one teen in the last 32 and more than four players aged 21 and under in the last 32, and to have fewer than six players aged 30 or older in the last 32, including three aged 34 or more. (RBA turns 35 in April, too).
 

bluetrain4

G.O.A.T.
It definitely skewed younger back when I was a kid and started getting into tennis (1985). 30 was "old" (not that players didn't play past 30 or do well, but it was more rare). ATGs often won their first Slam in their teens (e.g., Wilander, Edberg, Becker) and it wasn't unusual for them to stop winning Slams by mid to late 20s and wasn't unusual for players to retire around 30. Again, these are generalities, not hard boundaries.
 
Australian Open 2023, Men's Singles 4th Round

19: Rune
20: Shelton
21: Sinner, Lehecka
22: Korda, Auger-Aliassime
23: De Minaur
24: Tsitsipas, Wolf
25: Hurkacz, Rublev, Paul
26: Khachanov
27: Nishioka
34: Bautista Agut
35: Djokovic

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 8
25-29: 5
30-34: 1
35-39: 1

Definitely a young men's field, RBA and Djokovic excepted.
 
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Australian Open 2023, Women's Singles 4th Round

17: Fruhvirtova
18: Gauff
21: Swiatek
23: Rybakina
24: Sabalenka
25: Ostapenko, Bencic
26: Vekic
27: Krejcikova
28: Pegula, Zhu [turns 29 on 28 January, the day of the final]
29: Garcia
30: Pliskova, Linette
33: Azarenka
34: Zhang [turned 34 on 21 January, the day of her 3rd round match]

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 2
20-24: 3
25-29: 7
30-34: 4

Even with Swiatek and Gauff going strong and Fruhvirtova breaking through, it is still overall a much older women's field than in days of yore. 11 of 16 are 25 or older and 13 of 16 are 23 or older.
 
The events skewing older (on the women's side) and younger (on the men's side) match by match: in all three matches completed in round 4, the older woman won but the younger man won.

The upshot is that the only woman left who is younger than 23 is Fruhvirtova - who is 17!
 
Australian Open 2023, Women's Singles Quarter-Finals

23: Rybakina
24: Sabalenka
25: Ostapenko
26: Vekic
28: Pegula
30: Pliskova, Linette
33: Azarenka

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 2
25-29: 3
30-34: 3

How's that for an older lineup than hitherto?
 
Australian Open 2023, Men's Singles Quarter-Finals

20: Shelton
21: Lehecka
22: Korda
24: Tsitsipas
25: Rublev, Paul
26: Khachanov
35: Djokovic

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 4
25-29: 3
30-34: 0
35-39: 1
 
Australian Open 2023, Women's Singles Semi-Finals

23: Rybakina
24: Sabalenka
30: Linette
33: Azarenka

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 2
25-29: 0
30-34: 2
 
Australian Open 2023, Men's Singles Semi-Finals

24: Tsitsipas
25: Paul
26: Khachanov
35: Djokovic

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 1
25-29: 2
30-34: 0
35-39: 1

For all that it's a younger men's field, none of the semi-finalists is younger than 24 (almost 24.5)!
 
Australian Open 2023, Women's Singles Final

23: Rybakina
24: Sabalenka

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 2
25-29: 0
30-34: 0

The two youngest quarter-finalists both went all the way to the final! Meanwhile, all four men's quarter-finals were won by the older player. Reversion to the mean in both events in the last few days.
 
Australian Open 2023, Men's Singles Final

24: Tsitsipas
35: Djokovic

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 1
25-29: 0
30-34: 0
35-39: 1

"Nobody between Tsitsipas and Djokovic. Lost Gen!"
 
Roland Garros 2023, Women's Singles Round of 32

16: Andreeva
19: Gauff
20: Tauson, Avanesyan
21: Stearns, Rakhimova, Wang
22: Potapova, Cocciaretto, Swiatek [turned 22 on 31 May], Andreescu, Danilovic
23: Rybakina, Day
24: Blinkova
25: Sabalenka
26: Muchova, Kasatkina, Sorribes Tormo
27: Mertens, Haddad Maia [turned 27 on 30 May]
28: Svitolina, Putintseva, Schmiedlova, Alexandrova, Pera, Jabeur
29: Pegula
30: Stephens
31: Pavlyuchenkova
32: Begu
34: Tsurenko [turned 34 on 30 May]

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 2
20-24: 13
25-29: 13
30-34: 4
35-39: 0


N.B. Birthdays noted in the main text only if they fall during the tournament itself, so any date between Sunday 28 May and Sunday 11 June. So, Rybakina, for example, is not noted as being almost 24, as her birthday is the week after the event. Dates given are at age on the days of the third round (2 and 3 June).
 
Roland Garros 2023, Men's Singles Round of 32

20: Alcaraz, Rune
21: Musetti
23: Davidovitch Fokina [turns 24 on 5 June], Etcheverry, Seyboth Wild
24: Shapovalov, Tsitsipas, Ruud, Olivieri, Cerundolo, Altmaier
25: Rublev, Fritz, Tiafoe
26: Hurkacz, Zverev, Zhang, Coric
27: Norrie, Ofner, Varillas, Khachanov, Kokkinakis, Jarry, Nishioka
28: Sonego
29: Giron
30: Schwartzman
32: Dimitrov
36: Fognini, Djokovic

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 12
25-29: 16
30-34: 2
35-39: 2
 

Spin Diesel

Hall of Fame
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
Holy sht, I was staring at those numbers for about 5 minutes, trying to figure out what they could mean, until I realized that this was a post from 2017 :-D
Should go to bed now
 

Spin Diesel

Hall of Fame
Didn't know Giron is 29. Or Jarry is 27 where has he been?
I think the problem with him is, that he's not that great on other surfaces - the only times he's reached a quarterfinal was in 2018 on hard, where he lost to Taro Daniel and in 2019 on grass, where he lost to Gasquet. It's difficult, if you can only play on clay.
And yeah - he was at least suspended for 11 month due to doping.
 
Pretty interesting that there are only three men aged 22 or younger in the last 32 of the men's draw, given that we might well have a final between two men who turned 20 less than a month and a half before the final. (Alcaraz will be 20 years and 37 days old on 11 June, while Rune will be 20 years and 43 days old then).

Alcaraz v Rune is, per the bookies, the most likely final at this moment. And the only close contender is Djokovic v Rune. Every other possible final is much less likely.
 
Roland Garros 2023, Women's Singles 4th Round

19: Gauff
20: Avanesyan
22: Swiatek [turned 22 on 31 May]
25: Sabalenka
26: Muchova, Kasatkina, Sorribes Tormo
27: Mertens, Haddad Maia [turned 27 on 30 May]
28: Svitolina, Schmiedlova, Pera, Jabeur
30: Stephens
31: Pavlyuchenkova
34: Tsurenko [turned 34 on 30 May]

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 1
20-24: 2
25-29: 10
30-34: 3
 
Roland Garros 2023, Men's Singles 4th Round

20: Alcaraz, Rune
21: Musetti
23: Etcheverry
24: Tsitsipas, Ruud, Cerundolo
26: Zverev
27: Ofner, Varillas, Khachanov, Jarry, Nishioka
28: Sonego
32: Dimitrov
36: Djokovic

By Age Bracket:
15-19: 0
20-24: 7
25-29: 7
30-34: 1
35-39: 1
 
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