on steveg if you click on the young guns link it brings up an excel spreadsheet which then has them going back to around 2002 i think, boggo was even on it back then. you have to click on the tabs at the bottom of the page for the earlier years tho.
What's really annoying is I used to know that.The impression from clicking through from 02-09 is that the players are breaking through more slowly than they were.
could be, perhaps the men's game is more physical now (thanks to slower surfaces and racquet tech) than it used to be so it means that 17/18 years olds generally find it tougher now than they used too as maybe they haven't reached full physical peak.
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Count Zero - Creator of the Statistical Tennis Extrapolation & Verification ENtity or, as we like to call him, that steven.
haha Boggo and Bogmo on the same list...that is so confusing. I remember i used to constantly mistake those two, cheering Bogmo's wins when i thought it was Alex
Interesting list...Tipsy, Monaco and Tsonga were real late developers...although in Jo's case it was understandable becos of injuries