indiana wrote:

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I know we are now halfway through R2 but I did mention that I had been tabulating the ages of the 64 players through to R2 and the results are :

18 & 19 : 3 ( Shapovalov, Fritz and Rublev )
20 to 23 : 9 ( includes two 22 yos - Cam and Kyle )
24 to 27 : 13
28 to 31: 23
32 to 35 : 15 ( includes four 35 yos )
36 : 1 ( Federer )

The 24 to 27s had a pretty late relative surge but still just over the total 23 and under, just over half of these 28 to 31 and less than these 32 to 35.

For info the year to years splits from 18 to 36 were :
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 9, 6, 3, 5, 4, 5, 2, 4, 1

The 9 is for age 28, which was the median age. 34 were aged 28 or less, 30 aged 29 or more.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 31st of August 2017 04:40:43 PM

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For all some of the younger players' results the overall profile of the last 32 is probably even a bit older. Although the 32-35 group lost most of its number 3 of the remaining 5 are aged 35, the Fed group kept 100% of its number and the big 28-31 group had a good round. And the much maligned ( by me anyway ) 24-27 group dropped to 5.

Last 32:

18 to 19: 2 ( Shapovalov, Rublev )

20 to 23 : 4 ( Coric, Edmund, Pouille, Thiem )

24 to 27 : 5 ( Dzumhur, Schwartzman, Carreno-Busta, Goffin, Albot )

28 to 31 : 15 ( the rest )

32 to 35 : 5 ( Isner, Kohlschreiber, Mahut, Lorenzi, Lopez )

36 : 1 ( Federer )

The biggest single age block remains the 28 yos with now 5 remaining. And that means 16 aged up to and including 28 and 16 aged 29 and older.

Vandenburg wrote:

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BOLD PREDICTION

Vandenburg wrote:

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Bold Prediction:

A European will not win the USO.

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Theim Park will win the USO 2017.

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 Thanks Vandy for the Bold predictions from the Trump school of reasoning

Spectator wrote:

And on a US Open related side note (SC, you may wish to avert your eyes at this point) ... I and others - based on my recollection of others' posts - had always assumed that Tennys Sandgren's name was the result of parents with more enthusiasm for tennis than was helpful for their progeny. But in among the US Open tweets, there was one with a video of Mr Sandgren: twitter.com/TennisChannel/status/902523806354350080. And it turns out that his name is actually a family inheritance from his grandfather, who had nothing whatsoever to do with tennis. I'm not clear whether it was his grandfather's first name or the result of what seems to be a fairly common US tradition of using last names as first names ... but either way,  his parents are blameless.

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 I actually knew that - saw on it here, I think, some time ago, so I gneerally bite my tongue when I see the name mentioned.  Doesn't stop me grinding my teeth at each mention, though...  

Bob in Spain wrote:

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L32: Kyle Edmund WR 42 v (Q) Dennis Shapovalov WR 69 (CH 67 Aug 2017)

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First set in the bag by 6-3.   

Stircrazy wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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L32: Kyle Edmund WR 42 v (Q) Dennis Shapovalov WR 69 (CH 67 Aug 2017)

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First set in the bag by 6-3.   

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Bob:  his first name is actually spelt "Denis".  

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Clearly his parents' spelling is even worse than mine.