Carlos Alcaraz Calls Out Tennis for 'Killing' Legacy of Grand Slams with Proposed Switch From Best-of-5 Format
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Again and again the adaptation of the best-of-five format at Grand Slam tournaments is discussed. Carlos Alcaraz is not a friend of the debate, quite the contrary.
For a long time tennis has been walking inexorably towards strangulation. Its calendar, loaded, saturates the course and the tennis players, with Alcaraz at its head, have raised their voices on more than one occasion. The accumulation of matches, displacements and lack of rest are the bulk of the argument of the tennis players, who ... Continue reading "The defense of Alcaraz to traditional tennis: «If we remove the five sets we end up with the…
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Should Grand Slam matches become shorter in the future, especially to better reach a younger audience? Carlos Alcaraz doesn't think much of it: "If we take this away and play Best-of-Three, then I think we will kill the legacy of the Grand Slams and the Grand Slams themselves."
Theme was recently quoted by Australian Open president Andrew Abdo; Spanish tennis player gave a strong opinion on Wednesday (30)
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