[Senator Clay Davis]

To be fair, even if Chung wasn't hurt he was going to get straight setted. He was both nervy and out of his depth. Roger wasn't playing around tonight, and Chung was only beating him if he was off. We've talked about the need to modify the schedule, and more importantly they should be cutting back on the number of mandatory tournaments guys play, especially since there are three sets of back-to-back 1000 level tournaments with Indian Wells-Miami, Madrid-Rome, and Canada-Cincinnati. So that set up definitely needs to change, there has to be a week between those tournaments. I don't like going to three sets in majors, but could see a switch where up to the quarters matches are three sets, and then five after that. But what makes major tennis so great is it really has to be earned, there is no such thing as a cheap upset or win, everything is earned.

But really it's just how physical the game has become in the last 15 years, combined with the developments in racquet technology and the unfortunate slowing of hard courts. Players should be taking more after Roger and wanting to play quick points and not engage in long, physical rallies. The reason Andy, Novak and Rafa's careers are likely to be over by 34 while Roger might get to 38 and still be playing is they have simply played far too many punishing rallies, and those take the toll on the body. Just consider how often you see guys sliding on hard courts now. That just isn't normal, and it's something you rarely see from Roger. Unfortunately it seems many of the new generation have taken after those three and not Roger, though obviously playing like Roger is easier said than done.