Andy and Jamie Murray’s mother Judy recently spoke about the match format at Grand Slams, saying that it’s time to abandon the best-of-five set format to keep the health and careers of the top men safe. “I prefer best-of-three with a full set for the third set,” she said.

“Over the years, I’ve watched the game getting so much tougher physically and the calendar getting so much more demanding on the players emotionally and physically.” She continued by saying, “I think that at the end of last year there were so many of the top ten who were out of action with serious injuries – you need to look after that.

It’s another reason there needs to be a union for the welfare and wellbeing of the players, just looking after that in all sorts of ways.” She also said that men and women need to come together and raise their voices. “They are stronger together without question,” she said.

“But it’s the top players who have the voices and who will carry the weight. So it just needs some of them to get together to push for that.” She further explained this statement, “The ATP and the WTA, when they were created, that’s what they were for: they were to look after the wellbeing and welfare of the players.

And now, of course, their interests are in different ways so of course you get conflicts of interests. But I think there is more need than ever for something like that.” ALSO READ Marcos Baghdatis reflects on Andy Murray - Fernando Verdasco controversy