If I’m remarking on tennis more than usual over the last few weeks, put it down to both to my love for the sport and the Australian Open tournament. Of the eight singles semi-finalists—the women, the men—only two were below 30 years old (Coco Vandeweghe and Grigor Dimitrov). In tennis, we seem to be in an era not just of several all-time great players, but one in which older players are dominating the game. It’s not that older players haven’t turned out in other sports. One sign of this was that the best young players began skipping college—in the US at any rate, a remarkably competitive training ground for the game—to turn pro.

Source: Mint January 28, 2017 18:07 UTC