How to fix tennis
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
Baseball and cricket are evidence that sports can evolve and modernise, eve... See more
Morning after the night before: In the cold light of day, a tennis match at 3am is ridiculous
Thus, as the cable-tv-dominated status quo crumbles, pro sports will develop a new playbook, centered around better telling player stories. Players will also have more opportunity to tell and sell these stories themselves, direct-to-consumer:
Lea Boreland • Adapting sports
The Australian Open also doesn’t treat tennis like a fragile museum piece, never to be touched or tweaked because ‘that’s not the way it’s done’, or one of those other haughty phrases the guardians of the game use to rationalize their stodginess.
-NY Times
