[musefanatic]

This has been bugging me for ages and can probably be answered really quickly by one of you guys. I just wanna know why at the US open they play a tie break in the fifth set and not at any other grand slams.

 

[1sun]

tv schedule, times, rights

 

[adee-gee]

Americans are odd

 

[musefanatic]

So that's it, no reason like a tennis rule? Thanks anyway adee-gee and 1sun!

 

[Phunkadelicious]

we americans have short attention spans

 

[rofe]

Helps scheduling, helps selling tv time to sponsors etc.

Probably helps the atrocity called Super Saturday.