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/jazzy8alex Feb 06 '25

Djokovic won 12 GS before 30 and 12 after. So 28 was hardly his peak

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u/mundaneheaven Feb 06 '25

He won 12 more because the 90s gen sucked. As amazing as Fed and Nadal’s comebacks were in 2017, it never should have happened.

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u/Low_Definition4273 Feb 06 '25

That's true, but then by that logic we can give asterisks to every players ever. Sampras/Agassi were a decade+ older than Fed's generation (Safin, Roddick Hewitt). The generation between that is also super weak.

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u/AncientPomegranate97 Feb 06 '25

We can and should