Who are the oldest and youngest players in the Top-100 of the ATP ranking? The end-of-year ATP tennis ranking allows you to track statistics and data and this is certainly one of the most interesting. Let’s see how the players are divided by age in the top one hundred of world men’s tennis.
The oldest player in the top 100 of the ATP ranking is the Frenchman Gael Monfils, number 55 in the ranking, having turned 38 on September 1st. Following him are two 37-year-old players: Fabio Fognini, who turned 37 on May 24th, and Novak Djokovic who turned 37 two days earlier, on May 22nd. Two 36-year-old players are present: Adrian Mannarino (66 ATP) and Roberto Bautista Agut (51 ATP).
There is no 35-year-old player present while there are 3 who are 34 years old and they are Jan-Lennard Struff, David Goffin and Dusan Lajovic. Two 33-year-olds who are Grigor Dimitrov and Yannick Hanfmann.
Let’s now move on to the opposite end of the ATP ranking. There are two teenagers present in the top 100. One is the Czech Jakub Mensik, born on September 1, 2005, number 48 in the world.
Following the other 19-year-old is the Chinese Juncheng Shang, who was born on February 2, 2005. Shang is number 50 in the world. Then there are two players who are 20 years old: they are Arthur Fils, French already at number 20 ATP and the American Alex Michelsen who is at number 41 in the world.
There are five 21-year-olds in the top 100 in the world. Carlos Alcaraz is the number 3 ATP. Then there is Holger Rune number 13 ATP, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard number 31 ATP and Luca Nardi, number 92 ATP. Following are 7 players of 22 years.
In the meantime (speaking of over 30!) Grigor Dimitrov has been named by his fellow players as the winner of the Stefan Edberg sportsmanship award 2024, which praises the Bulgarian’s fair play, professionalism and integrity on and off the court. The 33-year-old managed to get the better of Carlos Alcaraz and Casper Ruud, recent winners of the status in 2023 and 2022 respectively.
“I’m just very grateful, very thankful to all my fans, my colleagues, everyone who has supported me throughout this whole time. I feel very lucky. Thank you all for this incredible appreciation, I will make sure to continue and strive to be the best,” he said, on the ATP Tour’s social media channels.
Dimitrov is the third player in a row to win the award for the first time, after the Norwegian and the Spaniard. From 2004 to 2021, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were the only winners, with the Swiss winning 13 times and Rafa being recognized on five occasions. Edberg won the award five times between 1988 and 1995, with the banner named after the Swede since 1996.
