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Ian Chadband

Rodionova: 'I can finally say I'm a good tennis player'

Arina Rodionova is detemined to make the best of her late-career blossoming at age 34. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Arina Rodionova is this week starting life as one of the world's top 100 women tennis players - even if she laughs that it feels like she's 10 years overdue to join the club.

But with a cry of "better late than never", the oldest player ever to make a debut in the WTA's top-100 at the age of 34 is determined to push on and ensure her record-breaking feat is just the start of her enjoying every minute of a late-career surge as Australia's No.1.

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