I would like to see younger guys beat Federer, Nadal, Djokovic - McEnroe
The former world No. 1 John McEnroe commented about the competition between younger and older guys. The American said: "You want to see other guys. That’s me. Spread the wealth a bit, I suppose, to make a long story short. Almost everyone else in tennis has one Grand Slam or none. Wawrinka has three. Murray is not playing. It’s just slim pickings. You’d like to see people. Listen, these guys have been out here in a lot of cases for 10 years or more also. Then you got these young guys that are going to be our future in a way. I think it would be better for tennis if some of these young guys actually beat Novak, Rafa or Roger Federer before they actually quit. It’s not like they finally win because they’ve stopped. You would like to actually see them compete against them. To me that would be more interesting."
On women possibly playing at the best of five sets like men do in the Grand Slams, McEnroe said: "People’s attention spans in general are so much shorter than they used to be. I think, if anything, they’re looking for ways to shorten men’s matches in a way because of the issues with the amount of time you’re out there, just two people. If anything, I would probably go the other way. To me, I’ve always wanted tiebreakers at all the majors. 6-All, I would maybe propose sooner than that, 3-All. I think after three, four hours… There’s expectations. The match at Wimbledon, when it went to 12-All, amazing. You’re talking about these two greats that could stay with it for five hours. Most human beings can’t do that. The level of play starts dropping pretty steadily at a certain time. It’s a tough call. If anything, I’d go the other way, like with the men playing a little bit shorter."
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