Kevin Anderson stood firm in his belief that matches at majors should retain their best-of-five sets format. — AFP pic
Roland Garros remains the only Slam to use the advantage set rule requiring a player or team to win the deciding set by two games. “If somebody had to ask me, that’s what I would choose. As you’ve seen, when it does go past that, it can be very taxing. At some stage it does get a little bit much.” Italian qualifier Giustino outlasted Frenchman Moutet 18-16 in the final set in a contest that fell 28 minutes short of the tournament’s record tie between Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clement in 2004.
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