I can’t believe it’s been three months and two grand slams since I’ve done one of these! Plenty has happened in the meantime, especially for Bernard Tomic, Wimbledon quarterfinalist. Tomic’s achievements have moved him into the top 100, into the top 3 20-and-unders, and the top 10 22-and-unders–quite a mark for an 18-year-old.
Note also that at the bottom of the 18-and-under list, there are a couple of 17-year-olds, plus Jiri Vesely, who only recently turned 18. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Vesely at the top of the 18-and-under list before his next birthday.
18 AND UNDER 68 Bernard Tomic AUS 10/21/92 326 Denis Kudla USA 8/17/92 347 Diego Schwartzman ARG 8/16/92 356 Benjamin Mitchell AUS 11/30/92 390 Guilherme Clezar BRA 12/31/92 406 Tiago Fernandes BRA 1/29/93 418 Alexander Rumyantsev RUS 8/16/92 440 Roberto Carballes-Baena ESP 3/23/93 510 Jozef Kovalik SVK 11/4/92 531 Victor Baluda RUS 9/30/92 549 Jack Sock USA 9/24/92 576 Taro Daniel JPN 1/27/93 628 Micke Kontinen FIN 12/18/92 629 Jiri Vesely CZE 7/10/93 648 Suk-Young Jeong KOR 4/12/93 669 Liam Broady GBR 1/4/94 673 Edoardo Eremin ITA 10/5/1993 684 Jason Kubler AUS 5/19/93 685 Mitchell Frank USA 10/16/92 698 Andres Artunedo-Martinavarr ESP 9/14/93 20 AND UNDER 26 Milos Raonic CAN 12/27/90 56 Grigor Dimitrov BUL 5/16/91 68 Bernard Tomic AUS 10/21/92 76 Ryan Harrison USA 5/7/92 140 Jerzy Janowicz POL 11/13/90 150 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER 10/9/90 185 Pablo Carreno ESP 7/12/91 197 Federico del Bonis ARG 10/5/90 209 Tsung-Hua Yang TPE 3/20/91 211 Facundo Arguello ARG 8/4/92 230 Javier Marti ESP 1/11/92 233 Marius Copil ROU 10/17/90 239 Laurynas Grigelis LTU 8/14/91 271 Axel Michon FRA 12/16/90 283 Gastao Elias POR 11/24/90 284 Alexander Lobkov RUS 10/7/90 305 Christian Lindell SWE 11/20/91 318 Daniel Cox GBR 9/28/90 319 Stefano Travaglia ITA 12/28/91 325 Andrey Kuznetsov RUS 2/22/91 22 AND UNDER 19 Juan Martin del Potro ARG 9/23/88 21 Alexander Dolgopolov UKR 11/7/88 26 Milos Raonic CAN 12/27/90 29 Marin Cilic CRO 9/28/88 48 Kei Nishikori JPN 12/29/89 55 Ernests Gulbis LAT 8/30/88 56 Grigor Dimitrov BUL 5/16/91 68 Bernard Tomic AUS 10/21/92 76 Ryan Harrison USA 5/7/92 89 Donald Young USA 7/23/89 107 Thiemo de Bakker NED 9/19/88 115 Thomas Schoorel NED 4/8/89 119 Benoit Paire FRA 5/8/89 134 Richard Berankis LTU 6/21/90 138 Martin Klizan SVK 7/11/89 140 Jerzy Janowicz POL 11/13/90 150 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER 10/9/90 155 Vasek Pospisil CAN 6/23/90 156 Evgeny Donskoy RUS 5/9/90 161 Vladimir Ignatik BLR 7/14/90
Thank you for the updated rankings.
I have been following for a while the progress of the guys born in 1990, and have gotten the impression that early success in the rankings is not that good an indicator of future standings. (Of course it might depend how you measure early success + it is much too early to say who will have the best career.)
I am wondering whether the 1990 boys are more erratic than most.
To give some specifics, the current top 5 players born in 1990 are Milos Raonic, Ricardas Berankis, Jerzy Janowicz, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe and Vasek Pospisil. Of these, only two (Berankis and Janowicz) were among the first 10 to reach the top 500 or 300 in the rankings.
Conversely, several of those who were precocious entrants into the top 500 or top 300 have not fared too well. Eysseric, Elias, Evans, Kontinen and Pella have yet to reach the top 200. Delbonis and Rufin did make it (in fact they were the first two), but have fallen back from their career highs. Of course, injuries play their part in all this.
I can’t guarantee that my stats are 100% accurate.