Nick Kyrgios insists that changing the number of sets in the early parts of Grand Slam tennis tournaments would be beneficial to players.
As per the long-standing rules in tennis, women’s singles matches are played as best-of-three sets. Men’s singles clashes, on the other hand, are best-of-five sets.
A maximum of three sets are played in all women’s singles Grand Slam matchesGetty However, it’s best-of-five for the menGettyHowever, it’s a format that WTA world no. 3 Jessica Pegula wants changed.
“I would rather men play two out of three,” she said on Tuesday after her shock Wimbledon first round defeat to Elisabetta Cocciaretto.
“I don’t think we all need to start playing three out of five. To me, it’s just too long and I personally lose interest watching the matches.
“I think they’re incredible matches, and incredible physically and mentally, but I’m just like, ‘Do we really need that?’ I don’t know.”
Kyrgios has also called for a rule change, but offered a different idea on how to implement it at the four Grand Slam events.
The seven-time ATP Tour winner, who stars on Wimbledon Unfiltered for talkSPORT, appeared on Drive to explain his suggestion.
“My idea to make everyone happy would be the first week of Grand Slams should be best-of-three sets and then from the quarter-finals onwards, it should be best-of-five sets,” Kyrgios said on Wednesday.
“It would solve a lot of issues early on, it would see a lot of different players making their way through to the quarter-finals.
“These bigger players, once they lose the first set in some of these earlier matches, they’re already under the pump
“They know that they don’t have that wiggle room to make their way back into the match.
Pegula has questioned if men need to win three of five setsGetty Kyrgios has detailed what he thinks should change in Grand Slam matchestalkSPORT“So I think the first week should be best-of-three and then the quarter-finals onwards should be best-of-five, so we get those kind of marathon matches with the best players in the world.
“You look at the French Open final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, that was some of the best tennis that the sport’s ever seen.
“I don’t think we should completely lose it altogether but I think from the quarter-finals onwards, it should be best-of-five sets.”
Men’s singles matches at the Australian Open were actually contested as best-of-three in 1970, 1973 and 1974 in the first round.
This was the same for third and fourth round matches in 1984, with the women’s singles entrants always playing in this format.
French Open men’s singles matches have been best-of-five sets since the early 1900s, with the women always having a maximum of three.
Alcaraz beat Sinner in a gruelling five-set thriller in the French Open final last monthAFPSince 1877, men’s singles and women’s singles matches at Wimbledon have been best-of-five and best-of-three respectively.
Best-of-five matches have been played in the US Open men’s singles ever since 1886, and women’s singles have mostly been best-of-three.
Such a format change would not be the first major alteration made at Grand Slam tournaments.
Line judges have been replaced by technology for the first time ever at Wimbledon during this year’s Championships.
Both the Australian and US Opens have been without the former since 2021 and 2022, with the French Open yet to make a change.
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