Scrap 'nonsense' doubles format, says Jamie Murray


Britain Tennis - Barclays ATP World Tour Finals - O2 Arena, London - 19/11/16 Great Britain's Jamie Murray in action during his doubles semi final match with Brazil's Bruno Soares against South Africa's Raven Klaasen and USA's Rajeev Ram Reuters / Toby Melville Livepic

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top men's doubles player Jamie Murray has called for an end to the ATP Tour's scoring system in the format and says there is widespread support for it to be changed.

While the grand slams have stuck to the best-of-three sets system, the men's tour uses a sudden-death point at deuce and has a tiebreak in place of a final set.

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