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spoken to Tennis365                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Edmund has spoken to Tennis365 at Wimbledon about his proposal for a radical rule change that he feels would improve tennis as a product.<\/p>\n<p>Edmund, a former British No 1 who reached a career-high ranking of world No 14, retired from tennis in August last year after dealing with a host of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has been commentating on the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wimbledon\">Wimbledon Championships<\/a> for the BBC, and he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/kyle-edmund-calls-for-tennis-rule-change-that-andy-murray-and-john-mcenroe-have-wanted-for-years\">called for the five-minute on-court warmup before matches to be scrapped<\/a> during Arthur Fery\u2019s match against Otto Virtanen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s probably not going to happen, but I think there\u2019s something to be said for the product and the spectacle,\u201d Edmund said. \u201cWhen you come on court: \u2018you spin, who serves, I\u2019d like to serve, I\u2019d like this end, you play.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that would be quite interesting. I do know they trialled that at the [ATP] Next Gen Finals in the last few years, but I\u2019d love to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Tennis365 at the All England Club, Edmund expanded on why he thinks removing the warmup would be a positive thing for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think the five-minute warmup, there\u2019s not loads that goes into it, it might just be like a nerve-settling thing,\u201d said the 2018 Australian Open semi-finalist, who won two ATP Tour titles.<\/p>\n<h2>Wimbledon News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/exclusive-sabine-lisicki-opens-up-emotional-2013-wimbledon-final\"><strong>Exclusive: Sabine Lisicki makes honest confession about her 2013 Wimbledon final loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/martina-navratilovas-radical-wimbledon-rule-change-backed-by-two-grand-slam-winners\"><strong>Martina Navratilova\u2019s radical Wimbledon rule change backed by two Grand Slam winners<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of the guys do big, physical warmups anyway, so it\u2019s not like they can go on court feeling cold. I see everyone in the gym getting loose 20, 30 minutes before the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think it would be quite a cool thing, once you see the players walk out and they get their rackets and and they go for the coin toss \u2014 we\u2019re going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther sports do that. Like football, rugby \u2014 everyone doesn\u2019t have a warmup. Golf has that ability, they have the range and the putting green, they walk onto the first tee and know they\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019d love to see that in tennis, where there\u2019s an opportunity, let\u2019s say, like on Centre Court here, to use a practice court [to warm up].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers are happy to hit for five minutes, because we see that on court, so why not have practice courts where they hit for five minutes and then they walk straight on? And then it\u2019s like, \u2018Right, we\u2019re good to go.\u2019 I think that\u2019d improve the product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember someone telling me about stats, that the amount of people watching [tennis] on TV that turn over [during the warmup], and there\u2019s a percentage that come back, and there\u2019s a percentage that don\u2019t come back because they\u2019re lost watching something else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think it would be really good, I\u2019d love to see that happen. If you think of the amount of matches we\u2019ve had, and the five-minute warmup, that\u2019s like hours and hours of meaningless [time]. So, I think that would be pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz is someone who would likely be opposed to this proposed change.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish star was critical of the one-minute warmup rule in place at the 2021 edition of the ATP Next Gen Finals, which he won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one minute of warm-up, you have no time to warm up,\u201d said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say for the player, you can\u2019t warm up everything, every shot, the volley, the serve, the backhand, the forehand, at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that you have to warm up four minutes to play forehands, backhands, volley, serve, smash, everything to start the match in the best way possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some rules that I would keep and there are some other rules that I don\u2019t really like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/martina-navratilova-suggests-novak-djokovic-must-make-tactical-change-to-win-another-grand-slam\">Martina Navratilova suggests Novak Djokovic must make tactical change to win another Grand Slam<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Edmund doubles down on calls for a radical tennis rule change at Wimbledon Ewan West 12 Jul 2026 8:45 AM Kyle Edmund has spoken to Tennis365 Kyle Edmund has spoken to Tennis365 at Wimbledon about his proposal for a radical rule change that he feels would improve tennis as a product. 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