Five Sets Will Be Fun For Navarro

American cruises into 3rd round, confident her fitness is good enough for longer format

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LONDON – With temperatures reaching more than 30 deg C at Wimbledon this week, players could be forgiven for wanting to reduce their time on court, but not American Emma Navarro who wants to see the women's tour play best-of-five-set matches.

The 10th seed was seemingly hungry for more minutes on the sun-soaked grass at the All England Club, having taken little more than an hour to seal her place in the third round with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Veronika Kudermetova on July 3.

The best-of-five format is used only for men's singles matches at the four Grand Slams, but with some pundits suggesting a rule change to allow the women to play for longer as well, Navarro says to bring it on.

"I would probably feel pretty good playing five sets. I think I feel good about my fitness level and endurance level," the 24-year-old said.

"I would be curious to see how the (women's) tour would hold up playing five sets. Yeah, I think it would be kind of fun."

Such a move, even if for the latter stages of Majors, would allow fans of the women's game to enjoy a potential hours-long epic such as the French Open men's final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz on June 8 lasting 5hr 29min.