Put An End To Round-Robin
Dear Mr. Etienne de Villiers,We are a rare breed. We love tennis the way it once was. You win, you advance. You lose, you go home. We understand that the ATP undertook extensive research to discover t... continue reading »
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"Withdrawals do occur in sports. In team sports like football, you can still have a legitimate round robin match even one or two players are injured because they can be replaced. But this system will never work in individual sports like tennis. Never. I ho"
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"Please consider the flaws that this system has shown against the traditional, yet from my point of view, more exciting, knockout format. As you can see the "Fans" don't like it, this surely defies the original idea behind the concept."
"round robin is pathetic. it makes it harder for younger players to progress, bring back straight knockouts"
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"Why bother with the RR at all if you are just going to place the players you want into the quarters whether they earn their spot fairly or not? The ATP should be ashamed of this entire debacle."
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"One of the worst ideas next to allowing coaching"
"It is ridiculous. Please stop it."
"why blake and not ferrerro????"
"RR is against the spirit of tennis"
"It's a good idea to petition tennis fans but you should include a proper international cross-section and it would be good to use the popular tennis sites as part of this e.g Pete Bodo's tennis world."
"RR is nonsence. Korolev-Blake situation is a disaster to your reputation and moreover - to FAIR PLAY, where is it? Honestly. Abolish it ASAP, please"
"it does not work, is ambiguous and achieves nothing as fans can work out that it is just a "for show" tactic that can be abused."
