On 5/17/2017 12:40 PM, The Iceberg wrote:
> Age of the Young Guns! Lol
>
And you need to consider this...
It is common tennis knowledge that an ATP tennis generation is 5 years.
Reasoning:
Real life generation is 20 years. This is for a life expectancy of
approx. 75 yrs (let's make that 80 for round numbers).
For ATP tennis, the life expectancy is usually 10 years, occasionally
15, and rarely 15+.
So real life:
Life expectancy 80, generation 20 (generation a factor of .25)
ATP tennis:
(Let's bump up the life expectancy a bit)
Life expectancy 15, generation 5 (generation a factor of .33)
Why am I mentioning all of this?
Can you imagine a great grandfather getting on a tennis court and
playing their great grand child a tennis match? Who do you think would win?
Well this is exactly what Federer is doing every time he steps on
court an plays a 20 or 21 year old!
And you know what?
He still beats them almost every time!
Incredible eh Icey?