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Talk Tennis Guru
So put aside your Big3 fandom here, we get it: Fed good, Djoker bad, Rafa clay.
Go have your farm animal debate somewhere else.
This is to discuss the upcoming, and inevitable questionable future of the ATP. For the last 20+ years we have truly been blessed by the tennis Gods.
However, will we pay the price?
What direction will the ATP tour take in 5+ years when the Big3 races and records are all a thing of the past? No new player will ever have a shot at essentially ANY record for a long long long time. What will the ATP try and sell. Who will buy it? Will they try to reshape the dynamic of the tour? Downplay the big 3 significance?
Now, everyone here loves tennis, yes, but to keep a sport thriving it needs new customers and excitement around it for non tennis freaks like us. We will still find a way to make it interesting for us, and we still will enjoy it, but the ATP is NOT worried about what we feel or think, they have their eyes set on potential customers.
Will be interesting to see how the ATP deals with this, because it is coming, and I dont think they have a plan.
What would you do? Any ideas?
Go have your farm animal debate somewhere else.
This is to discuss the upcoming, and inevitable questionable future of the ATP. For the last 20+ years we have truly been blessed by the tennis Gods.
- 90's tennis and the beginning of record quests
- Early 2000's: The slam race begins and introduction of ATG Fed
- Mid 2000's: One of the greatest rivalries in sports begins, introduction into ATG Rafa
- Late 2000's: Feds slam race, introduction to Djoker
- 2010-2021: Slam race, weeks race, h2h race, masters race, and etc.
However, will we pay the price?
What direction will the ATP tour take in 5+ years when the Big3 races and records are all a thing of the past? No new player will ever have a shot at essentially ANY record for a long long long time. What will the ATP try and sell. Who will buy it? Will they try to reshape the dynamic of the tour? Downplay the big 3 significance?
Now, everyone here loves tennis, yes, but to keep a sport thriving it needs new customers and excitement around it for non tennis freaks like us. We will still find a way to make it interesting for us, and we still will enjoy it, but the ATP is NOT worried about what we feel or think, they have their eyes set on potential customers.
Will be interesting to see how the ATP deals with this, because it is coming, and I dont think they have a plan.
What would you do? Any ideas?