Andy Roddick suggests adapting ‘this’ rule from football to keep players getting on-court coaching in check
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Andy Roddick, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Apostolos Tsitsipas
Former World No. 1 Andy Roddick has been one of the most active former players ever since his retirement. Consultant for Tennis Channel and an active social media user as well, Roddick is often seen giving his valuable opinions on various subjects in and around the world of tennis.
In the rising cases of players getting on-court coaching which is strictly not allowed in the sport, Roddick, like many other tennis fans finds the punishment for the rule-breaking very lenient which has given the players and their coaches opportunities to exploit the rule.
One of the most common names in the list of offences for rule-breaking is Stefanos Tsitsipas. The Greek player who just defended his Monte-Carlo Masters title was again warned by the chair umpire during the finals against Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the finals of the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters.
Having received a similar warning earlier in the tournament, Stefanos has now been caught multiple times and has been fined. After his semi-final exit from the 2022 Australian Open where he was caught by the officials for receiving on-court coaching, the player had revealed that he had a conversation with his father Apostolos who is also his coach but his father continues to do so and as a result, he is ready to pay and suffer the consequences.
Roddick came up with a well-received opinion via his Twitter handle where he cited the example of Football in handling this particular offence. With Football leagues around the world suspending the player if he receives 5 yellow cards, Roddick suggested a similar rollover model should be adopted in tennis as well.
“I think tennis should be like soccer. You should carry over some penalties throughout the tournament. Coaching penalties are an obvious candidate for rollover,” tweeted Roddick.
“Yellow and Red Cards too” Kim Clijsters replies to Andy Roddick’s idea
Having finally said goodbye to the sport, Kim Clijsters also replied to Roddick’s suggestion of introducing rollover penalties for the players. With the yellow cards being a warning and a red card being a removal and a subsequent suspension in football, Clijsters suggested even that idea can be implemented with the chair umpires handing them out.
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