First thing they could do is actually listen to the players and fans on the issues that need changing on the Tour
Things I would love to see changed...
- Lower the price of tournament tickets so you get full stadiums.
- Release full commitment lists again, so fans know exactly who will be playing which tournament.
- Make sure all tournaments have good quality websites, with proper live scores, accurate information and live streams.
- Secure a proper TV deal with Eurosport and get more women's tennis back on our screens again.
- Get rid of on-court coaching.
- Get rid of the new 'mandatory' tournaments! No one forced to play somewhere that they don't want to play.
- Make all tournaments more consistant...qualies all starting on the same day of the week, not some starting on friday, some on saturday etc..
- Be more fair with the distribution of wild cards.
- Get rid of '2nd grade' YEC in Bali.
- Improve Tour and WTA tournament merchandise...lower the price but still manage to make it a desirable brand within itself.
- Make sure tournaments are being played in countries where every player have equal visa access or at least for the WTA to make every effort to secure the visas for all players taking part, in advance of the tournament starting.
- WTA doing more to make the Tour as fan-friendly as possible, not removing personal tournament photos or videos from YouTube etc...
- Stop the huge fines for late withdrawals from tournaments, ask the players more on issues surrounding the calender, ranking etc...before putting the changes into place.
- Don't schedule tournaments the same week as Fed Cup.
- Bring back 'quality points' in the rankings.
<------- Wants to apply for Larry's old job
(Certainly couldn't do any worse than him! :lol: )