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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
There's a long list of players that plateau or lose their way at a young age on the ATP tour. Your entire basis is off if you are comparing tennis to hockey where players can stew until they're 23 and still become elite. Tennis is more about how long you've been on tour than what a players age is and you'll see many players currently in the top 20 who made their moves after a similar time frame on tour.
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ok if you say so, but neither of us were members here around 2009-2010 when Milos was the age Shapo is now. back then he was toiling away at the Challenger level with a triple digit ranking. guess if there was a 2010 Tennis Thread, I'd expect to see posts about how his career was in danger of coming to a standstill, and we may never see him in the main draw of ATP tour events.
hell, back when CP was born we could have had a tennis thread to talk about how Federer was on the verge of stalling out, you'd have as much of a case for that as you do for Shapo.
if Shapo was like Donald Young who had massive success at the junior level, but then took that exact game into the ATP circuit with underpowered groundstrokes, fitness, tactics, etc then ya I'd believe you. but Shapo's raw toolset is enough to put away even the best of the best when it's clicking. it's ridiculous not to give that kind of talent the time it needs to come together.