When Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic both hit “The Big Three-Oh” earlier this year, it was truly a senior moment for men’s tennis. For the first time in the game’s modern era, the five best players in the world—and the five top seeds at Wimbledon—are all over 30 years old.
That makes them virtual AARP members by traditional tennis standards. The era when punky teenagers like Boris Becker, or even a 17-year-old Rafael Nadal, stormed their way to major championships before they were of legal drinking age suddenly feels as distant as players wearing ties and slacks on Centre Court.
Behind that sea change is a dramatic shift in how professional tennis players approach the game now, because it isn’t just the top players who are long in the tennis tooth:
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