Still an old round of 32 despite Djokovic's loss

[helterskelter]

Here are the ages of the 32 men left in:

19: A. Zverev
23: Thiem
24: Sock, Tomic
25: Dimitrov, Carreno Busta
26: Evans, Raonic, Goffin
27: Nishikori, Paire
28: Bautista Agut
29: Murray, Querrey, M. Zverev, Lacko
30: Troicki, Monfils, Nadal, Gasquet, Istomin
31: Berdych, Wawrinka, Tsonga
32: Jaziri [Jaziri turns 33 on Friday January 20, the day of his 3rd round match], Darcis, Seppi, Simon
33: Kohlschreiber
34: Ferrer
35: Federer
37: Karlovic

 

[helterskelter]

16 of the 32 will be 30+.

 

[JRAJ1988]

 

[helterskelter]

For comparison, the women:

19: Ostapenko
20: Barty
21: Brady, Sakkari
22: Bouchard, Svitolina, Gavrilova
23: Muguruza, Garcia, Gibbs
24: Kristyna Pliskova, Karolina Pliskova
25: Vandeweghe, Pavlyuchenkova, Konta
26: Cirstea, Riske, Sevastova, Barthel, Wozniacki
27: Duan, Bacsinszky, Cibulkova
28: Makarova
29: Kerber
30: Vesnina, Strycova
31: Jankovic, Kuznetsova
34: Lucic-Baroni
35: Serena Williams
36: Venus Williams

 

[heninfan99]

age is only a number until you feel the aches of ageing

 

[speedysteve]

So, experience and strength that you just don't have at 18, is what its all about.

 

[ArcspacE]

Sock and Tomic gone next, possibly Thiem too

#younggunsfalling

 

[helterskelter]

Sock and Tomic gone next, possibly Thiem too

#younggunsfalling

I think all three have winnable third-round matches. Of course, they're all within the 60/40 or 40/60 range, but I'd be surprised if all three lost.

I don't see Zverev beating Nadal, so I think all of the last 16 will be 23 or more. This is also Zverev's last Slam as a teenager, and I think he's much better than anyone else who's still a teen, so unless he surprises me, I doubt we'll see a teen make a deep run in a Slam in 2017. Perhaps Taylor Fritz can surprise me, and I guess Francis Tiafoe will well improve in 2017, but I think both are considerably behind Zverev. Coric and Chung are no longer teenagers, and are also way behind Zverev right now.

N.B. Actually, I'd say Thiem has more than a 60% chance of beating Paire.

 

[ultradr]

Here are the ages of the 32 men left in:

19: A. Zverev
23: Thiem
24: Sock, Tomic
25: Dimitrov, Carreno Busta
26: Evans, Raonic, Goffin
27: Nishikori, Paire
28: Bautista Agut
29: Murray, Querrey, M. Zverev, Lacko
30: Troicki, Monfils, Nadal, Gasquet, Istomin
31: Berdych, Wawrinka, Tsonga
32: Jaziri [Jaziri turns 33 on Friday January 20, the day of his 3rd round match], Darcis, Seppi, Simon
33: Kohlschreiber
34: Ferrer
35: Federer
37: Karlovic

Of course, ATP is record old. It's the oldest ever and keeps getting older now.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/ramos-vinolas-late-career-turnarounds-jan-2017

even more odd is a lot of them are peaking with career high rankings !

 

[helterskelter]

Sock and Tomic gone next, possibly Thiem too

#younggunsfalling

You were right about Sock and Tomic, which means that the youngest man in the top half is Evans, at 26! Six of the eight are 29+.

 

[helterskelter]

The last 24 are:

19: A. Zverev
23: Thiem
25: Dimitrov, Carreno Busta
26: Evans, Raonic, Goffin
27: Nishikori, Paire
28: Bautista Agut
29: Murray, M. Zverev
30: Monfils, Nadal, Gasquet, Istomin
31: Wawrinka, Tsonga
32: Seppi, Simon
33: Kohlschreiber
34: Ferrer
35: Federer
37: Karlovic

No happy 33rd birthday for Malek Jaziri, who lost to Zverev senior.

 

[csmoove899]

Tennis used to be about explosiveness, which peaks at 25, now its about endurance, which peaks at 29

 

[helterskelter]

The last 12 are:

23: Thiem
25: Dimitrov
26: Raonic, Goffin
28: Bautista Agut
29: M. Zverev
30: Monfils, Nadal, Istomin
31: Wawrinka, Tsonga
35: Federer

As has been the case for the past several days, 50% of the field is 30+ and 50% of it is 29-. (Assuming that Dimitrov beats Istomin, that will be the case again today, so four of the quarter-finalists will be 30-something and four will be 20-something. If Istomin pulls off another upset, then it will be five 30-somethings and three 20-somethings, but I don't see that happening. There's quite a good chance that we'll have three 30-something semi-finalists, though: Federer, Nadal, and Wawrinka/Tsonga. If Istomin really continues his surprising ways, we could even have four 30-something semi-finalists. As Wawrinka and Tsonga play each other in the quarters, we're guaranteed one 30-something semi-finalist).

Still four contenders to be the first Slam champion born in the 1990s. As all of them are in the bottom half, that makes it quite likely that one of them will become the second Slam finalist born in the 1990s (of course, if it were Raonic, he'd be the only Slam finalist born in the 1990s but have done that twice).

 

[helterskelter]

The last 12 women are:

21: Brady
22: Gavrilova
23: Muguruza
24: Karolina Pliskova
25: Vandeweghe, Pavlyuchenkova, Konta
28: Makarova
30: Strycova
34: Lucic-Baroni
35: Serena Williams
36: Venus Williams

 

[gn]

Life expectancy has increased. May be that has to do something with this.

 

[Moose Malloy]

This surely must be the oldest women's semifinal lineup in a major in the open era. Wow.

 

[helterskelter]

Remember that time when the combined age of the singles winners at a major was only a few weeks shy of 71?

 

[1HBHNation]

damn serena is 35? thats awesome, wont have to see her no more.

 

[helterskelter]

damn serena is 35? thats awesome, wont have to see her no more.

Yeah you will. She's still far better than anyone else. At this rate, she's got every chance of continuing to win Slams for another few years.