aka a great Italian, 34 years old human being reached a new career high mostly by playing Challengers and surged to 40 in the live rankings?
WoToFi still possible? Does this scream weak era or shall mtf users accept we currently have great 30something years old guys playing suddenly their best?
I think the age needle will steadily continue to move to the right. We'll see more and more 30+ year old players having their career top results. I actually am glad about it - I don't mind seeing some wunderkinds breaking records in their teens, but that will become an exceptionally rare commodity going forward - and when we see one, that'll be the next legend most likely.
It's in a dire shape that's where tennis stands at the minute.
I don't even know how mugs like Dzumhur are winning matches regularly on the main tour. He would have been lucky to win challenger matches only a few years ago.
aka a great Italian, 34 years old human being reached a new career high mostly by playing Challengers and surged to 40 in the live rankings?
WTF still possible? Does this scream weak era or shall mtf users accept we currently have great 30something years old guys playing suddenly their best?
It really isn't, but it's tough to find these kind of players every year. Apart from it, hilariously 2005 and 2016 are considered to be years with weaker competition among mtf users.
IMO the field strength can only be measured in the average level I see a player in a certain rank area play, people trying to prove that it's a weak era because of Eubanks making a MD or Lorenzi being #41 or Wawrinka tanking in a Masters semi because it "exposes" the weak era is not very logical in my book (no offense ) Results can be very deluding, luck or just some good/bad days of certain players can create some strange results.
From what I've seen in the past year, the average level of play at the top ten is weak compared to 2008-2014, where we always had at least 3 of the big 4 in good form and younger Tsonga/Berdych/Ferrer/Wawrinka/Delpo. This is mainly because that the players from 1989-1994 who should have 1-2 slam-winning level players by now hasn't delivered.
The field in top 50? Nah, I don't think it changed too much when we actually look at all these players. This is just an opinion based on my experience in watching tennis, feel free to disagree with me.
IMO the field strength can only be measured in the average level I see a player in a certain rank area play, people trying to prove that it's a weak era because of Eubanks making a MD or Lorenzi being #41 or Wawrinka tanking in a Masters semi because it "exposes" the weak era is not very logical in my book (no offense
) Results can be very deluding, luck or just some good/bad days of certain players can create some strange results.
From what I've seen in the past year, the average level of play at the top ten is weak compared to 2008-2014, where we always had at least 3 of the big 4 in good form and younger Tsonga/Berdych/Ferrer/Wawrinka/Delpo. This is mainly because that the players from 1989-1994 who should have 1-2 slam-winning level players by now hasn't delivered.
The field in top 50? Nah, I don't think it changed too much when we actually look at all these players. This is just an opinion based on my experience in watching tennis, feel free to disagree with me.
Murray/Federer/Wawrinka all had better results in 2015 than 2014, sorry to tell you that mate. The only huge difference is that Nole upped his level substantially thanks to that serve+mental strength and a complete change in tactics and nearly sweeped the whole year.
^I didn't say anything about 2015, I guess it was better than this year, close to 2014 in the top 10 level. I already said that results don't mean that much, I know that Djokovic raised his level a lot, as a fan you should just accept that he is now much better than the rest of the field and be proud of him.
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