Patrick Mouratoglou, Naomi Osaka's new coach and former historic coach of Serena Williams, often talks about how to innovate tennis, now proposing a change that he would like to bring to tennis right away. The French coach has proposed several changes during the UTS exhibitions he has organized but now he has strongly urged a change that would certainly revolutionize the way of playing.
If in the UTS exhibitions Mouratoglou has experimented with new formats also related to the score in his intentions, to make tennis more and more exciting, there is a proposal that he would like ATP, WTA and ITF to adopt: a unique serve, eliminating - de facto - the 2nd serve.
"There should be only one serve. If this rule remains unchanged, our sport will become increasingly boring and spectators will enjoy it less and less. There should no longer be the possibility of serving the second ball. With the quality of today's servers, with so many very strong players serving, there are too many aces in every game, there are dozens of winners that are not aces but they are very close to it and it is boring for the crowd. If in today's tennis you have one second of play and then 25 seconds of waiting that sometimes becomes 30, before having maybe another second of play with another ace and so on, it doesn't work," he explained, trying to analyzing why tennis need to change this rule to engage more people.
