Some leaders in tennis believe that matches run too long and are hurting the game's popularity. While many top players are not in favor of drastic changes, there have been discussions concerning no-ad scoring, playing sets to four games, and points scoring as 1 to 4 instead of 15, 30, 40.
According to the *Wall Street Journal*, Craig Tiley, the CEO of Tennis Australia, said there would be more excitement if changes were implemented. "People want lots more points of pressure in tennis. They don’t want it to drag on as long as it does," Tiley said. "Look at the stadiums. Only after 3-all in the first set do people start filing back in to watch. We have too many moments of down time."
Chris Kermode, the president of the ATP World Tour, said that he would like to get rid of lets and reduce the length of pre-match warm-ups.
Canadian doubles player Daniel Nestor said most of the doubles competitions on tour are now no-ad scoring and that the players are OK with it. "I would immediately change tennis to no-ad scoring, all the way across singles and doubles," Nestor said. "When you get the same rally over and over again, 200 times in a match, I think it can be a little bit boring."
In a statement, USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said there are no immediate changes for discussion, but that the "pace of play is an area that can be improved, and [we] are exploring concepts that can address this."