Kyrgios Gives Five Interesting Ideas To Make Tennis More Entertaining

"I think best-of-three (sets) up until the quarterfinals, and from then on it's best-of-five. That's what I would immediately change at a Grand Slam. If you made it best-of-three (sets) up until the quarterfinals, you'd see some guys break through to the quarterfinals, but then obviously the better players would end up winning best-of-five."

"And the first week would be more exciting... How many times have we seen one of the best players in the draw lose the first set and you're just like, he's gonna come back and win it anyway?"

"What other sport can you get your favourite female athlete and your favourite male athlete competing on the same side of the net, for good prize money? It's not possible. Like, you don't see it in any other sport really."

"I've had the honour of playing with Serena and Venus (Williams). I would have loved to have played with Ash Barty at some stage. I think she was by far one of the most talented female players to ever play the game. I think we would have done some damage on the court, for sure."

"I would have players mic'ed up, as well. I think if you watch the NBA, the uniform or kit that they wear, they professionally put like a mic inside the shirt around the collar, so you can't feel it."

“Not doing that (in tennis) is being absurd for me – why would you not have like Novak or Alcaraz mic'ed up to hear what they're saying? "Even before the points, you see some of these amazing athletes – I do it myself sometimes – before a big point, they're talking to themselves."

"I'm not a very critical commentator. I don't like when commentators beat down (on players) or are too critical, because it's not easy out there, in today's day and age, the game's so physical."

"Tennis commentating right now needs a bit of a shake-up, I think. I guess when you've really played, and you understand the Futures and the Challengers, like how many players there are on a global scale, (you understand) how hard it is to actually make it into the top 128 players to make a Grand Slam."

"When someone turns on the TV, they might not know – we're not talking about the fans that have followed the sport for 20 years – we're talking about new fans and bringing them to the game. They're not going to know anything about these players."

"So the commentating needs to be up-to-date, I guess, in a way. It needs to be, like, kind of how the generation is now. They can't concentrate for more than a couple of minutes, so it needs to be loud, it needs to be energetic for a 20-second, 30-second (bit) and that might grab a new fan."