Is there a major problem in Tennis as a Professonal Sport

The fact that is showing an increaed negative in tennis relates to wen players started playing orfessional tennis at too oung an age and impact on them from a mental situation.

Take for nstance the cases of the following players:-

1. Medvedev
2. Zverev
3. Tsitsipas
4. Auger-Aliassime
5. Rublev

All the abve has one thing in common - they all started playing professional players at the ages of 14 nd 15 tears, by the age of 21 Tey were all in the Top 10 rankings and the sitation is that they have ebcome fla in perormnces as s evidenced by the following examples>

1. Medveev for a short perios was no 1 player in the world and is now rnked at no 14 in the world. He seeed to lose matches regularly and it relates to psychological issues and not really physical ones,
2. Zverev used to be the nunber 2 player in the World and he is on a downslide wit teh dfference between him of over 3 000 points and is on the way down. In a public statement Zverev state that eh lost interest in matches and fails to compete - lsing s tstring of matches in minor tonrnaments losing against playes whom in the past few years he routinely beated,
3. Tsitsipas usd t be riunely ranked between 3 and 5 in the world but at present he si ranked no 28 in the world, He also went of the boil and made omments similsr to what Zverev said,
4. Auger Alliassime in 2022 was ranked between 6 and 7 in the World -but is now Ranked number 27 in the world. He never made any comment on the issue,
5. Rublev as for a short while the number 5 layer int he wrld - but this year he went dwon to Number 17 in the rankings, At tha stage he said he was suffering from severe depression and since January this year he was on anti-depression tablets. He apperantly stopped using it and hs game collapsed, He started a fightback and is now ranked 10 again.

I named the above players and is seemed that theystarted laying professional tennis at too young an age and lost enerest in teh game and became playes no a shadow of what they used to achieve in playing tennis, That raise the quetion - should payers not play uniot tennis between the ags of 14 ad 17 only allowed to start playing ATP tennis when they reached the age of 17 or 18.

The ther prblem is that may players claim there are o many torunaents theyare forced to play in so as to protect their rankings in Workd Tennis and maintain their sponsosships cuing in the main a physical and menytal collapse of playersm , ,

Same goes for most sports Michael.

Agree with you - but in the case of or isntnce Rugby it is more or less 18 years when profesionasim kick in. Same applies to golf and cricket, ae whwn people leave hool ad concentrate only on profesional sport like ahpepned in tennis, I think the term is burn-out - espcecially n the case of for instance Kyrgios,