Playing professional tennis is a dream job, luxury lifestyle and still a lot of fun and challenge for these OLD GEN players who refuse to quit as they seek the last hurrah…
Viktoria Azarenka is 35 years old now and the former WTA no. 1 is currently stationed at no. 20 in the WTA rankings. The busy mother of Leo and oldest woman in the top 50 played seventeen tournaments this year.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is the second oldest woman in the top 50 ranked at 30. The 33 year old played twenty events this season.
Sorana Cirstea of Romania is ranked 70, the 34 year old played seventeen tournaments in 2024.
Also at age 34 is former no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, now ranked no. 72. The mother of two competed in thirteen WTA tournaments.
Arantxa Rus is 33 year old and ranked 79. She played in 33 tournaments this year. Her best ranking was 41 in 2023.
Irina Camelia Begu from Romania is 34 years old and ranked 81.
Tatjana Maria of Germany is 37 year old and ranked 95. The mother played in 35 tournaments this year.
Novak Djokovic will turn 38 in May and with a new coach in Andy Murray calling some of the shots, one or two more Grand Slam titles are certainly attainable.
Grigor Dimitrov is 33 and ranked no. 10. He’s obviously far from the finish line.
34 year old Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany is ranked 43.
36 year old Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain is ranked 51 and a month ago he just won an ATP title.
38 year old Gael Monfils is ranked 55.
36 year old Adrian Mannarino is ranked 67, down from his career best ranking of 17 in late January.
34 year old Dusan Lajovic is ranked 81.
37 year old Fabio Fognini just won a Challenger title in Spain yesterday which propelled his ranking back into top 100 at 90.
33 year old Yannick Hanfmann of Germany is ranked 96.
36 year old Mikhail Kukushkin is ranked 112.
38 year old Richard Gasquet played 31 tournaments this year, his last full season on the ATP World Tour (he’s retiring at French Open 2025) and his ranked 129.
39 year old Stan Wawrinka is ranked 161.
35 year old Radu Albot is ranked 164.
36 year old Alberto Vinolas Ramos is ranked 165
34 year old Dan Evans is ranked 166.
36 year old Marin Cilic is ranked 181.
33 year old Pablo Carreno Busta is ranked 198.
32 year old Bernard Tomic is ranked 215.
33 year old Milos Raonic is ranked 237 despite playing just seven tournaments.
34 year old Kei Nishikori is ranked 107 with only twelve tournaments played.
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Steve · November 26, 2024 at 8:49 pm
I’m truly surprised that Grigor is only 33. Seems like he’s been around longer than Fognini.