Former British tennis star Tim Henman has suggested that slowing down the speed of the courts is making the game less exciting. United States Davis Cup Team Captain Jim Courier revealed on Tennis Channel that the United States Tennis Association (USTA) slowed down the courts for this year's US Open edition.

The conditions at The All England Club have also changed in recent years. The conditions at the French Open have never too fast since it's the only Grand Slam tournament played on clay. There have been reports suggesting that the Australian Open might be the Grand Slam event with the highest court speed.

"The pace of the court is one thing but for me the bigger picture is how similar all the surfaces are," Henman said. Henman then acknowledged that slow courts "give very little option for styles of play" and that the Grand Slam are "becoming more and more uniform" -- which he doesn't think is a "necessarily good thing for the game." "You don’t see many people moving forward and looking to finish the point at the net, and you certainly see fewer and fewer people serving and volleying.

So if you make the courts more and more abrasive and slower and the balls heavier, then it’s going to die out altogether," former six time-time Grand Slam semi-finalist Henman added. Also read: Infosys becomes official partner of the Australian Open