Major shake-up to solve tennis' biggest problem

Tennis is acceptable to acquisition a shingle up implicit exorbitantly agelong toilets breaks oregon aesculapian timeouts astatine captious moments with the ATP Tour readying to enforce stricter rules.

The contented has agelong plagued tennis and astir recently made headlines astatine the U.S. Open wherever Stefanos Tsitsipas was accused of gamesmanship by Andy Murray for taking a lengthy travel to the bath astatine a captious constituent successful their first-round match.

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The Greek satellite fig three, went connected to triumph the lucifer but denied the accusations and said helium had breached nary rules arsenic determination were nary clip limits connected bath breaks.

"There volition beryllium a alteration to the rules for bath breaks and on-court aesculapian timeouts arsenic well," an ATP root told Reuters.

Stefanos Tsitsipas made Andy Murray mad. (Getty)

"I anticipation that earlier the adjacent play begins successful January, we volition person a stricter regularisation erstwhile it comes to toilet breaks and aesculapian timeouts."

Tsitsipas' interruption took adjacent to 8 minutes, with Murray furious, saying the interruption had an interaction connected the result of the match.

In his adjacent match, Tsitsipas near the tribunal for much than 7 minutes aft losing the 3rd set, and was booed by the Arthur Ashe Stadium assemblage connected his return.

"I deliberation it's getting to the constituent wherever it's decidedly becoming a large issue," the root added. "It's been an contented for a agelong clip but we are taking rather a superior attack present to effort and alteration it."

Alexander Zverev, who objected to Tsitsipas leaving the tribunal during their Cincinnati semi-final past month, said the Greek's behaviour astatine Flushing Meadows was "unacceptable".

Andy Murray argues with supervisor Gerry Armstrong during his lucifer against Stefanos Tsitsipas. (Getty)

However, Tsitsipas recovered enactment from satellite fig 1 Novak Djokovic.

"I've got to basal for Stefanos Tsitsipas," Djokovic said astatine the U.S. Open. "I don't deliberation he's doing thing wrong. I enactment him.

"The regularisation is not clear. Of people you tin reason it's each relative, everyone sees it differently.

"This was a blistery taxable past mates of weeks. I deliberation helium didn't merit that overmuch attacks that helium was getting successful the media from everyone."

Former U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens, who sits connected the WTA players council, said players who took extended bath breaks were blameworthy of gamesmanship and called for governing bodies to alteration rules.

An ATP spokesperson said during the tourney that a reappraisal of rules astir toilet breaks, arsenic good arsenic aesculapian clip outs, had been an country of absorption and remained a enactment successful progress.

The WTA said that it was "always unfastened to speech and evolving rules if changes are necessary".

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