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Mailbag: Thoughts on the "throwback" Australian Open and longevity in the game

MELBOURNE – Right to the Q/A today…..

Nadal vs. Federer. And an all-Williams sisters final too! Throwback Australian Open. Love it! Can I also be 35 again? Bonus!

• Welcome to the Retro Aussie Open. We have the possibility of a Williams-Williams final, a repeat of 2003. We have the possibility of a Federer-Nadal final, which happened here only once, in 2009. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni—who before this year won her last Aussie Open match in 1998—is alive as well. Even the breakthrough players aren't exactly young striplings. Coco Vandeweghe, who destroyed Garbine Muguruza on Tuesday, is 25.