No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka not taken with best-of-five-set matches in girls’s tennis

Prime-ranked Aryna Sabalenka wouldn’t need girls’s tennis to maneuver to best-of-five-set matches at Grand Slam tournaments — like the boys play — fearing increased damage dangers.

“Most likely bodily I’m one of many strongest ones, so perhaps it could profit me. However I believe I’m not able to play 5 units,” Sabalenka mentioned following her two-set first-round victory at Wimbledon on Monday.

“I believe it’s an excessive amount of on the lady’s physique. I believe we’re not prepared for this quantity of tennis. I believe it could improve the quantity of accidents. So I believe this isn’t one thing I’d take into account.”

Girls play best-of-three units in any respect tournaments. Males play the best-of-five format at Grand Slam tournaments, and better of three elsewhere.

There’s no widespread motion for the change, but it surely’s an occasional speaking level — if girls’s tennis ought to transfer to finest of 5 on the later phases of the foremost tournaments.

Sabalenka was requested in regards to the French Open closing through which Carlos Alcaraz beat Jannik Sinner in a five-setter that lasted 5 1/2 hours.

“For somebody watching, it’s superb to see 5 hours of nice tennis,” Sabalenka mentioned. “However I’m not likely jealous to remain there for 5 hours as a participant. I don’t know what number of days they wanted to get better after that loopy match.”

No. 2-ranked Coco Gauff expressed comparable sentiments about best-of-five units on Saturday.

“It could favor me simply from a physicality standpoint. However I do assume it could type of be an enormous change for the tour. I believe it could be nice simply holding it like how it’s,” the American mentioned.

Sabalenka beat 194th-ranked Carson Branstine 6-1, 7-5 in 73 minutes on Monday.