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The 25-year-old, Frances Tiafoe‘s wish to bring about a cultural change to tennis is the talk of the tennis world right now. And, Serena Williams’ former coach Patrick Mouratoglou totally agrees with bringing about a revolutionary cultural change. However, this agreement might have angered some tennis enthusiasts as they tried to look at the bigger picture.

The French tennis coach has always talked about bringing change and revolutionizing the current tennis culture. And with Tiafoe’s idea of letting the audience move and talk freely during matches, he believes this is the right concept to attract youngsters to the sport.

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Fans disagree with Patrick Mouratoglou hyping Frances Tiafoe’s revolutionary change 

Recently, the 55-year-old tennis coach took to his Twitter account to share his opinion on the American tennis player’s revolutionary idea of bringing a basketball culture into the sport. He shared a post that had Tiafoe’s idea of change written on it. And along with that, he wrote, “100% agreed @FTiafoe That is why @UTShowdown has the ambition to bring this dimension to our game.”

However, seeing his positive take on changing the tennis culture, fans fired up the comment section, giving their views about the same. Most of them focused on the fact that both are quite opposite from each other in terms of gameplay, audience, and everything.

A fan strongly disagreed with the idea and wrote, “Americans need to be banned just for bringing up this ludicrous idea.” 

Here are some more comments.

However, the biggest question is, what was the reason that made the American tennis player propose such a huge, revolutionary change in the tennis world?

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Frances Tiafoe wants to bring a huge change to the sport 

Just a couple of days ago, the 25-year-old American star confessed his issues with tennis. And talked about the serious lack of appeal in the sport. In an interview with Forbes, the 25-year-old tennis player, who is also a huge basketball fan, opened up about how tennis should be more like basketball.

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Additionally, he shared that fans should be able to move freely and take in the action during tennis matches. And he explained the idea, stating that this change will be able to bring a younger audience to the sport, just like basketball.

But as a tennis fan, what do you think—should tennis adopt a culture like basketball in an effort to draw more fans? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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