How to fix tennis

updated 2mo ago

Curfews and start time cut-offs feel like the most obvious solutions. And if tennis actually wants to address the root of the problem, it should give serious consideration to making the first weeks of Grand Slams best-of-three rather than best-of-five sets for men’s matches.

Baseball and cricket are evidence that sports can evolve and modernise, eve... See more
from Morning after the night before: In the cold light of day, a tennis match at 3am is ridiculous
Alex Burns added
but moneyyyy
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Poi
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from Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
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What Kind of Game are You Playing
In the 1999 tennis book, Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player, author Simon Ramo broke down the difference between amateur and professional tennis, writing that they were two different types of games:
Amateur tennis is a Loser's Game: 80% of points are lost on unforced errors. You win by avoiding error
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Terence Faircloth added

from Morning after the night before: In the cold light of day, a tennis match at 3am is ridiculous