London: The International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Thursday announced changes to match formats for the 2020 Olympic Tennis event.
- The men's singles gold medal match will now be played as best-of-three tiebreak sets rather than best-of-five-sets.
- This change to the men's singles final will align with the other matches in the men's and women's singles events, all of which will be played as best-of-three tiebreak sets.
- A further change was announced for doubles events, the men's and women's doubles matches will now feature a match tiebreak to 10 points when the score is tied at one-set all.
This format is already being used in the mixed doubles event.
"These amendments reduce concerns of overplay for players who reach the latter stages of all three events -- singles, doubles, and mixed doubles," the ITF said in a statement.
Olympics 2020 will take place from July 24 to August 9, 2020, in Tokyo, Japan.
