Billie Jean King was an instrumental figure in building the sport of professional tennis to where it is today. But, to move it into the future, the 80-year-old has some big ideas.
“People ask me all the time about the future of the game we all love, and what, if anything, I would change about it if I could,” King captioned a video shared this week to her social media channels. “So, here are my thoughts. Some of these may surprise you.”
Namely, the International Tennis Hall of Famer said that she “cannot stand” the sport’s scoring system, that it should be overhauled to something more straightforward, and that men and women should play the same number of sets.
“I think it’s harder to get new people into the sport, particularly young people,” she confessed. “I think we should get rid of 15, 30, 40, game. We should have one, two, three four. If you have to win by two then at three-all, do two points in a row or whatever. But get rid of 15, 30, 40 game.”
