Does Age matters!!!

Certain sports require you to be fit all the time during the hay days which also includes the age factor too.... couple of sports which come to my mind with age factor is Tennis, Gymnastics, Football & some other sports on the same line.... Other sports like Cricket, Golf, we can see players still playing towards their fag end...

http://sports.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/may/26/slide-show-1-french-open-veteran-tennis-player-date-krumm-full-of-drive.htm

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/players/overview/wta040130.html

New sportsperson in tennis is trying her 2 innings i can say... She is almost close to 4o years old and she defeated Dinara Safina in her first round match at the French open. She was forced to withdraw from playing due to some illness. But the way she played the match against Dinara, we should really see does AGE factor really matter. If we see the current trends in tennis, player needs to be totally fit and we need all the 3 S's (Speed, Strength & Stamina) in competing with much of your younger age. Here is brief story as said in the above links and its quite impressive & inspirational one.