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路Do you think there should be no tie breaks then? Eliminating those would certainly make matches longer, but that would absolutely make matches less exciting. Tying length of the match to excitement is a tenuous thing for me...
3 set matches can go for well over 3 hours (longest women's match of 2023 to date was at the French and was 3 hours and 51 minutes, and there have been 45 matches that have been 3 hours or more so far this year), so I don't think this is a "short attention span" issue, really...
No, I think tiebreaks are the best way to decide a set, although I do kind of miss the notion that a tiebreak in the fifth could go to 70-68 脿 la Mahut vs Isner馃榿
In terms of long three-set matches; it's more about the limited amount of opportunities to come back that I find so problematic; I absolutely love a fight back.
In terms of short attention span, we see a number of supposedly lengthy sports trying to cater to this; for example, in Formula 1 we now have sprint races at a number of circuits, its usually around a quarter to a third distance (time), funnily enough, I don't mind this so much as it doesn't impinge on the race distance of the Grand Prix itself, although what I find most interesting is that the sprint race can often impacts the Grand Prix in terms of strategies and the like; then there's Twenty20 cricket which is a significantly shortened game of cricket, that was apparently introduced in order to 'create a fast-paced game that would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television'
