{"id":15797,"date":"2013-07-03T04:48:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15797"},"modified":"2013-07-03T04:48:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:48:55","slug":"cut-mens-grand-slam-to-best-of-three-sets-martina-navratilova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15797","title":{"rendered":"Cut men&#8217;s Grand Slam to best of three sets: Martina Navratilova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">London: Tennis legend and Laureus World Sports Academy Member Martina Navratilova predicts that Wimbledon and the other Grand Slams will switch to three set matches for men in the future \u2013 or we could see more injuries to the top men\u2019s players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Laureus.com, Martina, who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including nine at Wimbledon, said: \u201cIt\u2019s really becoming so taxing that I believe one day we will have two out of three sets in the Grand Slams, otherwise they\u2019re going to be taking people out on stretchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martina says the injuries to the big name players this year \u2013 Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray \u2013 has highlighted a growing concern.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe have always had issues with injuries, but this year it came to light more so when the top guys are hurt. Rafael Nadal\u2019s had issues, he was out for about eight months. Now Andy Murray has missed the French Open because of a bad back and Novak Djokovic had issues as well with his ankle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martina highlighted a series of reasons for her concern. \u201cNumber one, we\u2019re playing on hard surfaces most of the year, not clay. We used to play with wood and gut, now they play with metal or some kind of synthetic racket. They put a lot more hours in and everybody hits the ball harder, you have to run harder. Plus the courts are slower so the rallies take longer. This has to take its toll on the body,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou play a long match and it takes you months to recover, because it\u2019s like running a marathon in sprints, but then sometimes you have to go out and play a match the next day or two days later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her solution is for men\u2019s Grand Slam competitions to switch from the best of five sets to the best of three sets, which is the current format for the women. She said: \u201cI think a way to curb it would be to play the Grand Slams for men only two out of three sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And to those who say we cannot tamper with the historic format of Grand Slams, she has an answer: \u201cWe have changed the scoring system, where it shortens some games at least. But we didn\u2019t have tie-breaks until the \u201870s in tennis, so that we used to have 14, 12, 24, 22 game sets all the time. Now imagine if we didn\u2019t have tie-breaks and playing three out five \u2013 good luck! So, yes we\u2019ve changed the rules in tennis and this is another one that could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martina, who remained relatively fit during her career, although she did need surgery on both knees towards the end, added: \u201cI played a lot of tournaments. I would play probably 17 to 20 tournaments a year and I played singles and doubles. Some Grand Slams I played mixed doubles as well, so I played a lot of tennis. But the matches were shorter for me. I played very aggressive games, so I didn\u2019t have long rallies. But could I do that now? No. I wouldn\u2019t be able to play doubles in all the events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martina Navratilova is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy, a unique association of 46 of the greatest living sporting legends who volunteer their time to act as global ambassadors for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which uses sport as the means to combat some of the world\u2019s toughest social challenges facing young people today such as juvenile crime and violence, HIV\/AIDS, substance abuse, social exclusion, discrimination and health problems such as obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Tennis legend and Laureus World Sports Academy Member Martina Navratilova predicts that Wimbledon and the other Grand Slams will switch to three set matches for men in the future \u2013 or we could see more injuries to the top men\u2019s players. In an interview with Laureus.com, Martina, who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1445,6293,9669,9670,761,562,5010],"class_list":["post-15797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-andy-murray","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-laureus-world-sports-academy","tag-martina-navratilova","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-wimbledon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cut men&#039;s Grand Slam to best of three sets: Martina Navratilova - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15797\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cut men&#039;s Grand Slam to best of three sets: Martina Navratilova - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London: Tennis legend and Laureus World Sports Academy Member Martina Navratilova predicts that Wimbledon and the other Grand Slams will switch to three set matches for men in the future \u2013 or we could see more injuries to the top men\u2019s players. 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