Less sets, less injuries: it might be time for a change!

The style of playing professional tennis has changed and it seems like the more power, the better for blasting serves and those forehands and backhands. In some instances, clocking the speed of a serve and strokes are more important and impressive than where those points are going to land. Yes, everyone knows that a serve going 150 miles per hour is more difficult to return than one going 80, but what is it doing to the bodies of the players? Many like to see the style of a men’s match and say that they get the most fans and patrons in the stands. The booming serves, the ‘put away’ volleys, the expressions — they all are addictive to the tennis masses. Some lady tennis players have a ‘mean’ serve and can do a lot of damage to anyone’s game but yet at what price? What happen to the style of tennis being done with finesse and grace and still winning the point? Slices and spins aren’t used as much as the power game but they are more stylist and shows an artistic play as their own more than the power matches. 

All the ways of playing the men’s game is great and watchable no matter what, but those sets that go on and on can not only get tiresome to look at but can grind down a body’s mechanism badly. Sean Randall says much in his article “Why We’ll No Longer See Best of 5 set Men’s Matches At Grand Slams’–“…the added length puts a premium on fitness and only heightens the drama and tension…four hour plus matches…we’re just tough to bit through…the casual viewer who checks into tennis…Are they really going to be glued to the TV for that long?” The ladies matches at times can …

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