{"id":41033,"date":"2025-07-05T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41033\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:08:14","slug":"nick-kyrgios-calls-for-major-tennis-rule-change-at-grand-slams-which-could-create-loads-of-new-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41033\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios calls for major tennis rule change at Grand Slams which could create loads of new champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2025 edition of the Wimbledon championships has been the year of upsets, with a record number of seeded players crashing out of both draws. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Following Friday\u2019s play, just 12 seeds remain in the men\u2019s tournament, while four of the top five women\u2019s seeds are already out of the championships. <\/p>\n

The biggest shocks include world number three Alexander Zverev<\/a>, Roland Garros champion Coco Gauff<\/a>, and home hope Jack Draper<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With the event wide open, a chance for a maiden appearance in the Wimbledon<\/a> final is now up for grabs for several stars, which is something Nick Kyrgios<\/a> would like to see even more going forward. <\/p>\n

\"CocoPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesNick Kyrgios calls for a major rule change at Grand Slam events<\/p>\n

When asked on Talksport if women should play best of five sets, Kyrgios responded: \u201cNo. I actually want best of five sets to leave men\u2019s tennis as well, up until the quarter-final.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that would fix a lot of the scheduling issues, it would fix these delays on court in the earlier rounds, you would see more upsets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese bigger guys, especially in the first couple of rounds. Alcaraz went down an early set, and then already the alarm bells are ringing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like I am on the brink already, first round of Wimbledon, whereas you always knew he was going to find a way and win in the best of five.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it were best of three up to the quarter-finals, I think you are going to see a lot more intensity, and then when you get to the quarter-finals, you can play best of five sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that would add a lot more excitement to Grand Slams. You would see a lot more new champions as well. But I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s ever going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The top seeds still remaining at this year\u2019s Wimbledon championships<\/p>\n

The number one seeds in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s draws still remain at Wimbledon in the form of Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, the second seed, is also still in the tournament, despite difficult matches against Fabio Fognini and Jan-Lennard Struff. <\/p>\nTournamentSeeds out before the third round<\/tr>\n\nWimbledon 2025<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRoland Garros 2020<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWimbledon 2002<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRoland Garros 2023<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUS Open 2003<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWimbledon 2013<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUS Open 2017<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

After Sabalenka, the next highest seed remaining in the women\u2019s draw is 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Five of the top 10 men\u2019s seeds are left in the tournament, including world number six Novak Djokovic<\/a>, who is in pursuit of a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam title.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 edition of the Wimbledon championships has been the year of upsets, with a record number of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6532,62,1464,67,132,68,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-41033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-nick-kyrgios","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114801259512976873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}