>for all of tennis, the game would be 100% more entertaining if they only allowed
ONE SERVE ......... no second serve
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Pancho Gonzales was known for his fiery will to win, his cannonball serve, and his all-conquering net game, a combination so potent that the rules on the professional tour were briefly changed in the 1950s to prohibit him from advancing to the net immediately after serving. [They gave players just one serve.] He won even so, and the rules were quickly changed back.
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Tennis tried one serve
back when Gonzales was hot.
They discovered that
so many players
have erratic serves, no one
could have a good match.
Tennis tried one serve back when Gonzales was hot.That's amazing that they actually tried that.
They discovered that so many players have erratic serves, no one could have a good match.
I understand how that could have happened. But I still believe that if young players were brought up KNOWING that the rule of the game was "only one serve", it would be very easy (almost automatic - like today's second serves) to get that serve in....... very easy.
Because those first serves would most likely have a similar speed of today's second serves, that may cause the returner to have a little too much advantage. So, perhaps the service line could be backed up an inch or two to make it a little easier to get those first serves in as a "flatter serve", thus allowing the server to hit it a little harder.
I just would like to see mens tennis not be so dominated by the serve. It stinks watching these guys smoking those first serves, there are often very few rallies.
Mostly everyone knows that the ladies pro game is much more entertaining because of the longer rallies. That needs to come back into the men's game, imo. It could happen with rules changes, but, it will never happen, I guess.