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A sports season needs a clear beginning, middle and end. Tennis has no end. You like for a crescendo, a build up to a title game that determines a champion.
Tennis fades away, with a path to the No. 1 ranking that is complete nonsense. Is there any other sport in which top athletes think No. 1 isn't really worth it?
Most sports fans don't know this, but the tennis season is still going on. The year finishes with an important sounding tour championship, but no champ is decided. In women's tennis, the year-end No. 1 is Caroline Wozniacki, even though she hasn't won a major and hasn't beaten many top players. And everyone knows she's not the best.
Luckily, the Answer Man -- that would be me -- is here to fix tennis. One easy move can make tennis way more interesting, especially this time of the year. So here's to hoping tennis' governing bodies are reading.
Make the ATP World Tour finals and the WTA Championships decide the year-end No. 1. Whoever wins is the world champ.
Tennis needs a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series. It needs a clean ending, a digestible system of following what's going on.
In tennis, the butler never gets around to doing it.
Tennis has four Super Bowls, four majors. Well, that doesn't work any better than it would if they had four in the NFL. They don't build toward anything, don't resolve anything.
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Source: http://tennis.fanhouse.com/2010/11/10/for-closure-tennis-needs-a-super-bowl/
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