YOU can look at it in one of two ways.
One, tennis has enjoyed a golden era over the past decade with some of the greatest players of all time battling out.
Or two, the same four guys — Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray — keep winning all the time and it’s getting dull.
Either way, John McEnroe thinks it’s time for a shake up.
“You can’t just stand on your heels and do nothing. We’ve got to keep trying to do things, in my opinion, to grab fans,” McEnroe says.
The original Superbrat, courtesy of The Guardian, has devised a manifesto to make tennis “edgier” — and you won’t be surprised to hear it has a fair bit to do with the umpiring. Here is McEnroe’s five-point plan.
1. NO UMPIRES, NO LINESPEOPLE
“You’d have a system where the players would call their own lines. All of a sudden things would get a whole lot edgier. But you could challenge it. Say the guy was, like, blatantly cheating and you challenge, people would be, like: ‘Boo!’ People would get way more into it. And then you’d be, like: ‘See this guy? This guy is such a cheater!’ It would be unbelievable for tennis, I promise you. The problem is, there’s no way in hell they’ll do it. But I guarantee you that tennis would be like 30 per cent more interesting.”
read more: http://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/john-mcenroes-fivestep-manifesto-to-fix-tennis/story-fndkzym4-1226967591030
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