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Should Wimbledon Call Time On The Fifth Set?

One of the oddities of sports is that theres no tie-break in the fifth set at Wimbledon. In theory, a match could go on forever now theres a thought for anyone holding a pair of tennis tickets

The last two Wimbledon finals have indeed looked like they would never end. In 2008, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal battled on endlessly until Nadal finally prevailed 9-7 in the final set.

This year it was a similar story, as Federer and Andy Roddick went back and forth for game after game in the fifth set. This time Federer was the winner, but in truth nobody deserved to lose either of these classic encounters.

Those organising television schedules or wanting to plan flights home might well object to the fact that the timing of games is so flexible. After all, a Wimbledon final is the most desirable of tennis tickets, and if you had troubled to buy one then youd probably want to be sure the games going to be over before you have to go to work on Monday morning.

But changing the rule would rob tennis of something special, and go some way to killing off the endurance aspect of it all. Many fans want to see trench warfare, and thats what these extended final sets give them. Which is exactly why, as sports tickets go, Wimbledon final tickets remain absolute gold dust.

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by: Auroin Seo




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