Bartoli and Robson: Should women's tennis slams have 5 sets?
The 5 live commentary team discussed how much a difference it would make to have the latter stages of women's Grand Slam events extended to five sets with the early rounds staying at three sets.
"You are speaking of possibly playing 10 sets, and that can be a physical issue for a woman to play 10 sets over two days," said Marion Bartoli, whereas Clare Balding and Laura Robson think five set matches is possible and would be a good thing.
Marion Bartoli, Clare Balding, Laura Robson, Judy Murray and David Law were in the commentary box during the first Wimbledon ladies' semi-final between Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova,
This clip is originally from 5 live Sport on 3 July.
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