Paul Feinbaum

But you don't want people going to the brink of, you know, major medical problems.

And this has been a really, you know, crazy week.

And we've seen other crazy weeks in Australia over the years, for sure.

Well, we saw, I mean, there was obviously such a sad thing with Haley Baptiste getting hurt, but that was a separate issue.

But we had Jakub Menchik, one of the most promising young players, you know, playing through Krantz at the end of his five-set marathon, almost, you know, a four-and-a-half-hour match in the heat.

And literally, when the match was over, he collapsed.

And laid on the clay for three or four minutes and could not move.

They tried to lift him up.

He couldn't get up.

His whole body had kind of gone into basically temporary paralysis.

Ended up being okay.

But these players are pushing themselves to the extreme.

So it's more a question philosophically.

What does the sport want to emphasize today?

Where do they want to go with this?

Do they want it to continue to be about your conditioning and pushing the limits that way?

Or do they want to try to maybe be a little bit more in tune with the times?

And then it also begs the question, Tony, of we're still playing best of five sets for the men in 2026.

And the women have been playing best of three, as you know, forever, except for a couple exceptions over the years.

And do we really need to still be playing best of five at this point?