Best of Five Set Masters Finals: Let's Bring Them Back
Novak Djokovic wins Monte Carlo Back in 2012 I wrote an article for Eurosport asking whether some Masters finals on the ATP tour should be restored to best of five sets. I think Masters tournaments are in need of a shake up. The dichotomy is that if I were to contact the ATP now, they would tell me how well the tournaments are doing, how much success they have had and how much money they generate, and there would be no need to change anything. They would also think I am out of my mind but would probably be too polite to say it. But precisely the reasons why the ATP do not think there needs to be change, are the reasons there needs to be change. There is no doubt in my mind that Masters finals exclusively becoming best of three sets has stifled competition and kept those at the top, at the top. Why? There are a host of reasons for this. The first thing to say is when best of five sets were jettisoned in 2007, it coincided w...