To me, at least, it’s ridiculous: tennis for the sake of tennis, rather than the sake of the players, media or local viewers. There’s a point at which a day’s play needs to be cut off, with the winner being sensibility.
Mark Knowles, a former No. 1 in doubles, heard similar reaction from people in Paris over his WhatsApp. On today’s edition of Second Serve (watch it on the Tennis Channel app, or Samsung TV Plus channel 1154), Knowles joined the show and gave his thoughts about it—and more to the point, something that could be done to help curtail match time.
“I would love to see no-ad in singles,” Knowles said. “And I would change it up a little bit. I’ve spoken to Roger, I’ve spoken to Roddick, I’ve spoken to Isner, the best servers in our game about it. I would like to see the server get the choice on the no-ad.
“When I rationalized that, hey, you would have the choice on the 3-all [40-40] point, that made them feel a little bit better.”