Early age vs Late

[Pleyerm]

Hello! I have a question - I have played tennis from 7 to 15 years, 8 years about but now I have 23 and since 16 I haven't played tennis because of university and other things, only sometimes with friends but nothing serious. I have a friend who started playing tennis when he was 21 and now he is training for about 3 years. So I was thinking if I started to train again seriously and he would train seriously, who would be better for example after 2 or 4 years? (for example if we are talented about equally). I gave this kind of question because I am thinking if it matters if you train for 7 years when you are child and then start to play after a long pause or you could start playing in early adulthood and be also very good or better player than that who started playing early.

 

[Kieran]

If you're equally talented and you both play a similar amount for 2-4 years, but he's been playing already for 3 years, I think your early training and experience would level things out. Just taking it as all other things being equal.

And welcome to the forum!