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Best of Five 5th Set Tie-breaker is ready
Freak3yman84:
--- Quote from: Babblelot on January 20, 2013, 09:54:35 PM ---It has to be a hair less boring than playing it out for 8 points, agreed? :)) That's the problem with hyperbolic arguments.
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OK, but it wouldn't be a hyperbolic argument if a tiebreak ended with a boring score of 7-4 or 7-3 rather than losing a game and being at deuce or losing a game and being at AD. Just another situation that would make a tiebreak boring :yawn:
Rafa816:
Yes, extended fifth sets take gladiator-like strength. The point is, they aren't gladiators. They're tennis players. What's the point of going on for a freakishly long stretch of 40-0 or 40-15 holds where it just becomes who can serve more aces than double faults? And then, unless it's a final or the winner is Djokovic or Nadal, the person is just going to go on to the next match and get murdered. The tennis suffers and the players suffer. I say a fifth set tiebreaker is better. Plus, your argument about more epic extended fifth sets than epic fifth-set tiebreakers is void. One slam has fifth-set tiebreakers. The other three and the Davis Cup have extended fifth sets. So there's a lot more chances to have an epic extended fifth set. And don't even bring up Isner-Mahut. That fifth set sucked. There were hardly any points. It was almost exclusively aces, service winners, double faults, and return winners.
monstertruck:
Rollin' Old School.
Play it out.
Never seemed to be much of an issue until the equipment and the court speed changed. :\
Let the players, fans, and big $$$ associated with those changes pay the consequence for their actions. Long, boring matches between players barely able to move into the forecourt.
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