This week, Roger Federer turned 30. \u00a0In some sports, that age can represent peak performance; in tennis, it is often a signal that the end is near.<\/p>\n
I’m sure Roger wouldn’t appreciate being treated as an age-grouper, but viewing him that way gives us more evidence of his greatness. \u00a0Regardless of whether he returns to the top of the ATP rankings, it would seem that he’ll remain the #1 thirty-something for as long as he wants to keep playing.<\/p>\n
Here is the current list of best 30-somethings, based on this Monday’s ATP rankings. The only achievement that exceeds Fed’s domination of the 30-and-over set is Ivan Ljubicic’s standing among 32-year-olds. [Edit: That is, if you ignore Radek Stepanek, who is older and higher-ranked. \u00a0Never mind…]<\/em><\/p>\n This week, Roger Federer turned 30. \u00a0In some sports, that age can represent peak performance; in tennis, it is often a signal that the end is near. I’m sure Roger wouldn’t appreciate being treated as an age-grouper, but viewing him that way gives us more evidence of his greatness. \u00a0Regardless of whether he returns to … Continue reading Welcome To Your 30s, Roger Federer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rankings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3 Roger Federer SUI 8\/8\/81\n18 Jurgen Melzer AUT 5\/22\/81\n22 Juan Ignacio Chela ARG 8\/30\/79\n27 Radek Stepanek CZE 11\/27\/78\n30 Nikolay Davydenko RUS 6\/2\/81\n31 Ivan Ljubicic CRO 3\/19\/79\n33 Michael Llodra FRA 5\/18\/80\n47 Albert Montanes ESP 11\/26\/80\n49 Xavier Malisse BEL 7\/19\/80\n50 Jarkko Nieminen FIN 7\/23\/81\n63 Potito Starace ITA 7\/14\/81\n64 Victor Hanescu ROU 7\/21\/81\n79 Olivier Rochus BEL 1\/18\/81\n85 Michael Berrer GER 7\/1\/80\n86 James Blake USA 12\/28\/79\n88 Eric Prodon FRA 6\/27\/81\n91 Ricardo Mello BRA 12\/21\/80\n98 Diego Junqueira ARG 12\/28\/80\n100 Michael Russell USA 5\/1\/78\n103 Marc Gicquel FRA 3\/30\/77<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"