Olympic Tremendous Tiebreakers are “Pointless”

 By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, July 31, 2024Photo credit score: Clive Brunskill/Getty

Nadalcaraz is lighting up Paris and Rafael Nadal needs to drag the plug on one Olympic rule.

After King of Clay Nadal and reigning Roland Garros champion Carlos Alcaraz defeated Dutchmen Tallon Griekspoor and Wesley Koolhof 6-4, 6-7(2), 10-2 on the Paris Olympic doubles, the 38-year-old Spanish famous person known as for change.

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Two-time Olympic gold-medal champion Nadal stated he is against the Olympics enjoying a 10-point tremendous tiebreaker in lieu of a third-set given the stakes at hand and the very fact the Olympics happens solely as soon as each 4 years.

For these causes, Nadal favors enjoying out a full closing set in Olympic doubles relatively than deciding a match on “the lottery of the tremendous tiebreaker.”

“It’s important to at all times be centered. And much more so with a format like this that on a private degree it’s pointless to have a Video games with tremendous tie-break,” Nadal instructed the media in Paris. “It’s performed on the circuit and it’s comprehensible as a result of it favors the singles gamers to play.

“However the Video games are each 4 years and for the singles gamers it’s an important event of our careers, so I do not perceive why they wish to reward the lottery of the tremendous tie-break and never a three-set match.”