Wimbledon Injuries

[mushroom25]

7 withdrawals due to injury, and several high-profile eiiminations following falls on what Sharapova describes as a "dangerous" surface.

wimbledon stands alone as the only grass-surface tournament and clearly a lot of the top players have difficulty adapting to it.

is it time for the LTA to accept the inevitable and switch Wimbledon to a clay-surface tournament?

[beckersjay]

I do hope not because I think grass court tennis is very exciting. However, if the top players stop refusing to play there, the pressure to change would be huge.

[daftgrandad]

Most certainly not.
This tournament has been won by some of the greatest tennis players who
have ever lived.They did'nt complain.
There are too many prima donnas in the game today.Until this year there has
not been withdrawals on this scale.
They are using the grass surface,as an excuse to try to cover up their failings.

[EDDIE51]

Hell will freeze over before that happens.
Wimbledon is still THE top tennis tournament in the world by a huge margin
Remember LTA stands for LAWN Tennis Association !
Many top players would rather give up all other tennis than give up Wimbledon.

[emmie]

Queens club is also grass. I think you have to adapt your game to play on grass, in the same way some struggle with clay.

[Canary42]

Since when has Sharapova been an authority on anything except screaming.

And a lot of the top players have NO TROUBLE AT ALL adapting to the surface.

[mushroom25]

//Queens club is also grass// it is, and so are Edgbaston and Eastbourne. At one time the top players used these tournaments to get in some grass practice, but now the top players give them a miss - they're either too busy, or these little tournaments are beneath them.

[Butterbun]

The grass is what makes Wimbledon different, and it is the greatest of the Grand Slams, that is why everyone want to play the tournament. As you said, the smaller events leading up to this is where the players learn to adjust to grass and those who miss them have a greater difficulty when they have to play their match. The players are not greater than the event.

[ichkeria]

No, in a word

[emmie]

Wimbledon is the biggest tournament in the world, every player wants to play there, very few make it, it will never be clay.

[emmie]

someone like Queens, it's not a little tournament, it's the lead up to Wimbledon

http://news.sky.com/story/1104462/andy-murray-wins-queens-title

[ichkeria]

In the unlikely event they did change the surface it wouldn't be on the strength of what has happened today and it would never change to clay. most likely a synthetic grass-like surface

[emmie]

i can't see them doing that either, the cost may well be prohibitive.