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Let's say you are annoyed by tiebreak?


Imagine we abolish tiebreak altogether and just assume set is won whoever reaches not just 6, but 7, or 10 games first?

So you start serving first, you don't get broken and set is yours once you win your serve at 9-9 for 10-9.

In the second set, the serve order is naturally different so now your opponent has the same chance.

So ultimately it's not "unfair".

In this way, tiebreak will be reserved for the final set of course.

That would make tiebreak sort of grand finale, match within match, something this modern first to 10 points tiebreak is trying to achieve in the final set of the grand slam tournaments.



I know it's pretty controversial and this is not a serious proposal, just thinking about it's, it's about that silly ATP next gen tournament with their experimental scoring. I posted about that long time ago.

I am still puzzled by their stupid experimental scoring. Apparently it's all about ADHD next gen who have low attention span and need constant stimulation?

But those scoring are never going to be implemented so why even test them? You should only test stuff that has a serious chance of being implemented.

Sets being won at 4 games, and tiebreak played at 3-3? Atrocious.

And just one point after duece to decide who wins the game? Atrocious.

Best of 7 sets? Well, irrelevant kinda but I'm not a fan of it either.

So when will that be implemented?
Never.


Such scoring means virtually all sets feature tiebreak and frankly tiebreak is a bit annoying if it happens too often. You just don't have normal sets when tiebreak is looming large. Thinking about how silly this next gen experiment is, I came up with the idea of having no tiebreak at all.


In atp next gen I would surely experiment with abolishing second serve, as I find that's the biggest drawback and something that annoys non-tennis fans or those who don't understand tennis scoring and alienates them. Players are super pros but they can't hit the ball to start the point?

Also it's an obvious time waster.

With second serve being abolished and serve errors resulting in lost points for the server, we could increase pts in the game (15, 30, 40, 50, won) so that the advantage of serve is maintained to the similar degree it is now.

Or we could just make sets longer, ending at 8, 9 or 10.


I would definitely experiment with no second serve in the next gen finals, with normal scoring instead of this nonsense with sets being won at 4 games.



PS I don't advocate any changes, but merely saying ATP next gen is testing the wrong stuff and in the wrong way. It's a nice testing ground and too bad they're wasting opportunity.
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