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  • Players can play well into 40s

    From *skriptis@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 16 19:59:28 2025
    Federer hasn't suffered any major decline in his game, Nadal just recently, in his awesome Roddick interview, said exactly that, he felt his touch and reflexes were still there during 2024 attempted comeback, and as we can see with Djokovic, he still has
    it.


    In all of their cases, it's the injuries that stopped them or are becoming an obstacle.

    Their bodies give up, it's the classic wear and tear, but it's not really the mythical Father Time that's often mentioned in a sense you get old = you get slow.


    I don't think we'd exactly see the following generations play into their 40s, I think we're few decades away from it, we need some major medical advancements, but it's likely to happen.

    Of course, other factors could prevent such outcomes, like lack of motivation etc, but generally you get my point.


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  • From *skriptis@21:1/5 to PeteWasLucky on Sun Mar 16 22:46:54 2025
    PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
    Again the same story, Federer will continue to play well in his eighties


    Talking about extremes, sounds familiar?




    but he won't be able to rally five shots with a player ranked 1000.You don't understand what it takes to physically compete with younger athletes and the impact of aging on our abilities even if you are the most gifted in your genes and take care of
    yourself physically and every aspect of your life.


    I said all 3, not just Federer.

    To an extent, Djokovic is already a proof for my point he outlasted those other two by a thin margin, nobody knows why, but we assume it's with even better regimen, elasticity, taking care of his body by drinking hot water etc which gave him an extra
    year or two in comparison?


    The advanced medicine of future will give all players couple of more years as well, allowing the top guys to play at the top level into their 40s.

    They will never be 80, but 42, 41 why no?

    That's cca extra 5 years.




    Think of it.

    We just got the oldest number 1 in tennis ever in a era with the oldest US president ever.

    No, you won't see presidents being 110 years old, but healthy people will be sharp into their 80s why not so some of them might run, why would Biden or Trump be the last ones, I reckon they're the first of many.

    World is too serious business to be left to young ones.






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