Many super talented tennis youngsters have emerged in the last few years.
The likes of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Petra Kvitova, Angelique Kerber and Serena Williams are all in their 30s, with their careers slowly coming to an end.
Here are the players, who are ready to take over from the abovementioned greats:
Sofia Kenin
Still only 21, Kenin has the world at her feet as women tennis' next superstar having already won a grand slam.
Kenin clinched this year's Australian Open and became the youngest American to win a Grand Slam women's singles title since Serena Williams in 2002.
The victory elevated her to the number four spot on the WTA rankings and she looks destined to surge up to the number one spot in the near future.
Bianca Andreescu
At the tender age of 19, Andreescu is setting the world alight as she is the first player to win a grand slam title as a teenager since Maria Sharapova in 2006.
Andreescu stunned the whole world when she clinched the 2019 US Open and the Canadian Open, having defeated Serena Williams to win both titles.
Currently ranked sixth on the WTA rankings, she has been tipped by many as a future number one due to her exceptional talent.
“It’s amazing because Kim (Clijsters) was my childhood idol. My coach used to tell her all the time that I remember her,” Andreeescu said in an interview with Pal Springs Life.
“I watched her because of her style of play. She was so different from the other players and she had a complete game. She was very strong mentally, physically and tactically."
Dominic Thiem
At the age of 26, Thiem is widely regarded as the immediate successor of men's tennis' Big Three of Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
The Austrian star is already ranked third on the ATP rankings - a place above the greatest tennis player of all-time Federer and he is a three-time grand slam winner.
Thiem, who won the Australian Open trophy and two French Open titles, looks set to topple Nadal and Djokovic, and become the number one tennis player in the world.
Daniil Medvedev
The year 2019 saw Medvedev establish himself as one of the best tennis players in the world as he clinched the US Open trophy.
The 24-year-old Russian, who has a career-high ATP ranking of world number four, achieved on 9 September 2019, stunned Nadal in the 2019 US Open final.
Medvedev is currently ranked fifth on the ATP rankings and is expected to compete with Thiem for the number one spot in the future.
"The last several months he's been playing the tennis of his life. He's played finals at least in every event in the last whatever, five, six events, which is amazing," Djokovic said about Medvedev on Business Standard.
"He's improved his movement, his fitness. He's got the big serve, he's got the height and he uses angles very well.
"Backhand -- hard to break that backhand, it's very flat. He doesn't make many mistakes and he can hit anything he wants from that corner," he added.
"Forehand maybe has been his weaker side, but now he's improved that, so he's a very complete player."
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