“I’m redefining old age”

I’M AN AVID TENNIS player, and when I was 60, I was thinking about the different ways male and female tennis players are portrayed in popular culture. This led me to ask myself, how are older sportspeople portrayed? I typed into Google: ‘Older sporty people’. The results were depressing – and shocking.

‘Older’ overrode ‘sporty’, with moribund images of old people slumped in chairs. Who’d want to get old if this sorry looking picture