Today is Marin Cilic's birthday

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Specifically, his 30th birthday.

And it was Del Potro's 30th just under a week ago.

Which means that, for the first time since, what, probably since tennis began, there is no man in the world still in his 20s who has won a singles grand slam.

Federer is 37, Wawrinka is 33, Nadal 32, Djokovic and Murray 31.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

...oh, and I wouldn't bet against it being possible to say, 12 months from today, "no man under 31......"

I reckon Nadal and Djokovic might have enough left to fight off Zverev and the other youngsters for another year's worth of slam events.

[Kevin S]

And in the past there have been seven teenage men who have won a Slam (Chang, Becker, Wilander, Borg, Nadal, Sampras, Edberg). Nadal's 2005 French being the most recent of those.

[KGR]

That's a mega stat. I have stolen it for my social medias.

[ursus arctos]

By defeating Lucas Pouille in straight sets, Cilic has just assured that Croatia has won the last "classic" Davis Cup ever contested.