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Focusing
back
up
for
the
age
question,
Murray
is
not
certainly
the
first
player
to
play
his
best
tennis
in
the
late
part
of
his
career.
Stan
Wawrinka
started
the
trend:
both
players
reached
their
peak
at
age
29,
an
age
that
was
considered
as
the
last
stage
of
career
until
a
few
years
ago.
And
instead
Wawrinka,
who
will
turn
32
in
March,
is
confirming
that
as
the
time
goes
on
the
bigger
awareness
in
his
weapons
beats
the
theory
of
the
number
instead
of
what
happened
in
the
last
decades:
the
youngest
players
to
retire
"young"
beyond
Bjorn
Borg
(age
26,
which
is
an
expection),
have
been
Marcelo
Rios
and
Marat
Safin
(29
age),
Kafelnikov,
Jim
Courier,
Andy
Roddick
and
Stefan
Edberg
(30
years
old),
Pete
Sampras,
Kuerten
and
Boris
Becker
(32
years
old),
but
they
were
all
declining
for
some
time.
Apart
Novak
Djokovic
who
seems
empty
mentally,
there
isn't
any
player
who
could
aim
to
be
World
No.
1.
But
seeing
how
Fab
Fours
have
a
bigger
longevity
than
the
past
gives
even
more
value
to
an
unique
Era
that
now
rewards
after
many
years
the
Andy's
patience
and
continuity.
Three
years
ago
in
November
he
was
having
a
back
surgery
that
could
have
influenced
the
rest
of
his
career.
Now
he
pushed
away
the
doubts,
and
his
present
is
more
gratifying
than
ever.

despite
Ivan
Lendl's
comeback,
who
was
a
little
bit
under
the
shadow
in
this
last
part
of
the
season
as
he
does
not
sit
in
the
Player
box
since
US
Open.
But
it
doesn't
matter,
in
this
season
Lendl
already
did
his
job:
he
had
to
give
Murray
safety
and
positive
energy
when
it
mattered
the
most,
it
means
after
the
loss
to
Novak
Djokovic
at
the
Roland
Garros.