The Russian tennis player Yevgeny Kafelnikovformer world number 1 and winner of two Grand Slam singles tournaments in his career, attacks the tennis tournament hard Wimbledon. And it is a controversy that has been recurring ever since there was a change to the grass fields on which the London tournament is played with a slowdown in the surface.
Kafelnikov who won the Roland Garros 1996 and the Australian Open 1999 while he has never particularly shone at Wimbledon, having only the quarter-finals obtained in 1995 as his best result, he wrote a tweet two weeks before the start of the tournament that created widespread debate.
Ironically aimed at the agronomists of the third Slam of the season – starting this year on Monday 1 July with the final to be played on Sunday 14 July – but in fact directed at those who make decisions related to how to prepare the grass pitches of the most prestigious tournament in the world .
Kafelnikov’s tweet: “It’s time to review the serve and volley at Wimbledon”
The grass of the past a Wimbledon it was decidedly different from the current one which is slower and allows long exchanges which were once less frequent.
The serve and volley It is used less and less by players. And the tweet from the former world number 1 is based on this fact. Kafelnikov would like to return to a faster surface where attacking play is encouraged.
Here’s his original tweet:
That is to say: “When will Wimbledon’s agronomists put the courts back to how they were before? The time has come because we need to see players serving and volleying again!”
