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What is real age limit for singles without beginning recession?

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  • 31

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • 32

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • 33

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • 34

    Votes: 2 11.1%
  • 35

    Votes: 1 5.6%
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    Votes: 4 22.2%

What is real age limit for singles without beginning recession?

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I think it's 35 years. See BB or IK. They are BEST now!:worship::angel:
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Cebolla still has five years to reach his peak :D
See Hewitt, Roddick or Safin : retired (semi for hewitt) at 30
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29 or 30 probably

even Federer as good as he remains obviously started declining in his late 20s
Why you think so? Without great serve it's 30 or 29 years old I think!:rolleyes:

Zeba is NULL now:)sad:

Zebra have GOOD serve but not great. He's losing 1 service game in set almost in each set now!!!
From about 30 it's downhill. Problem isn't the strength/speed but more about recovery and the accumulation of damage on ligaments, muscles, bones and you name it. Takes more time for the body to recover after a tough match. In tennis you don't have that time.
Why you think so? Without great serve it's 30 or 29 years old I think!:rolleyes:

Zeba is NULL now:)sad:

Zebra have GOOD serve but not great. He's losing 1 service game in set almost in each set now!!!
you think the answer may be 29, yet lowest poll option is 30. I take it Cebolla hasn't taught you to poll?
The "real" age limit is different for all players. It depends on genetics and maybe not only.
I think it's 35 years. See BB or IK. They are BEST now!:worship::angel:
It depends on individual players. Laver, Sampras and Federer won their last slams at 31. Anres Gimeno won the FO at 34. Rosewall won slams, in the open era, at 33-35- 36-37. Agassi won his last slam at 32 or 33. Therefore, IMO, most players are past their prime by 32.
I agree. I think it depends on the individual.

Still strong and consistent: Roger Federer
Late bloomers: David Ferrer
Possibly ready to retire: Lleyton Hewitt
Overage spoiled brat: Tomic
There really is no straight answer to this and there appears to be a lot of factors influencing the longevity of a player. It seems like most top players in the Roddick age group (Nalbandian, Moya, Hewitt, Davydenko) peaked young and declined quickly, probably because of the sheer amount of tough games they played against each other whereas journeymen like Becker, Karlovic, Benneteau seemed to have hovered around their usual mark for almost a decade. Federer is the lone exception to this, he appears to be nearly ageless.
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It's much earlier then when then this poll actually implies. If a player retires at 30-32, this means that the recession started many years before that.

The peak for the average tennis player is probably closer to the age of 25 or 26. Of course everyone is different but professional tennis with all of it's travel, exposure to sun, lack of a real off season and intense physical demands tends to age players much quicker than other sports.

The decline can be sharp, or it can be gradual but the peak physically is probably somewhere in the mid twenties.. there are some exceptions to the rule, posters like to bring up Agassi but I believe he didn't fully maximize his talent in his early years and thus failed to reach his true potential . Andre as a player was a great story of redemption and perhaps maximizing potential in ones late years but was not a story of a player who achieved all he could have achieved.

David Ferrer is another example and again, he's a guy who struggled with confidence mightily early in his career and really began to ascend around 23-25. For Ferrer it was self belief early on and it's this that cost him from reaching his full potential on tour. His peak potential though was probably still around 25 or 26 years old.
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It used to be 29/30, but in our current baseball era it's quite a few years later.
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you would say that, giving yourself false hope :devil:
In general, I think players probably start to decline at about 27 or 28, but it doesn't become particularly noticeable until 30 or 31. :)
Depends, for a grinder 24-28. For a more effortless player, maybe 25-30 now. For a servebot, the sky is the limit. Definitely getting later.
Why you think so? Without great serve it's 30 or 29 years old I think!:rolleyes:

Zeba is NULL now:)sad:

Zebra have GOOD serve but not great. He's losing 1 service game in set almost in each set now!!!
Zebra :haha: :haha: :haha:
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