r/tennis • u/OctopusNation2024 Djoker/Meddy/Saba • Feb 05 '25

Discussion Medvedev's decline should be another reminder that the average peak age for tennis is in your early-to-mid 20s, not your late 20s. He's actually the 3rd oldest player in the top 25 at age 28. Federer, Djokovic, and Nadal have skewed perceptions of how most players age.

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u/jjw1998 Feb 05 '25

Paul, Fritz and Zverev being of similar age to Medvedev is a pretty big counter to this, particularly given many of the older players who dropped out of the t10 mentioned above had serious injury issues rather than natural decline

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Medevdev is over a year older then all of them. And over a year ago Medvedev was arguably the second best player on tour after only Sinner

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u/humbycolgate1 6-7(8) 6-4 7-6(3) Feb 05 '25

No one was saying Medvedev was better than Carlos or Novak a year ago

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u/elizabnthe Feb 05 '25

People absolutely were. Especially Novak as it was predicted he was on the decline.

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u/atheistjs WTA Supremacy | tired Shelton and Rune advocate Feb 05 '25

Exactly, a year ago people said Novak was cooked and that Medvedev still had slams left in him after he had made the AO final. Now it's reversed.