Would We Want Tennis Without The Knockout Tournaments?

Question

Each and every tennis event (pretty much) consists of a single-loss elimination tournament with seed seperation, ... QFs SFs, ... and games and sets - what if we instead had a season with:
only 3 months of tournaments, and with seperate brackets for the top 4, rest of top 20 & non seeds, then one of the runnersup qualifies to the Super Four through a mass single-tiebreaker loss elimination game.
Then 1 month of playing in 6 man national teams only (+ a doubles & 2 tagteam match types making them 5/9 clashes)
the 6 months of wrestling federation or boxing card inspired play where only every 7th episode is a Super Main Event and most other matches are mere big vs small challenge matches,
and then 1 month of round-robin or 3 phases with a cut and a ladder match finale for the Super 16; while 20 nations and regions of the world hold similar events for the best qualifying runners up ....
& then a rest month.
I ask would it not be better for the sport, the players and the viewers?

Answer 1

Not a chance.

While innovative, your system has lots of problems. 1st, professional tennis is as much about sponsorship money as it is about tennis at all. So not only are you ignoring that, because that's where prize money comes from, and people that put up prize money want an event where their name is on it, and their logo is everywhere and their commercials are everywhere. So you want to take away 7 months of that?
Also, your top 4's would be comprised generally of 2 of the top 4 players, one player ranked between 4-20, and one player ranked outside the top 20? You'd essentially be giving one of the final 4 a free pass by playing someone outside the top 20.

Don't model a real sport against a non-real sport like wrestling.

The year end championships for each tennis tour are model a little after the soccer World Cup (round robin, then single elimination).

In general, single elimination provides a lot of drama, while seeding protects better players/teams, giving best probabilities for the best players/teams to remain for the semi-final and final rounds, which is what fans and players and sponsors all want.

Also, these systems consistently rank the best players accurately. There are not any glaring examples of people ranked higher/lower than they should be...

Having like a "champion's league" sounds like a good idea, except if you were one of the top 4, and you had to play the other top 3 all the time, with only one of you advancing out of the division, how is that better. You'd be playing much harder matches in general, for less rewards. If you were a top player, you'd hate it.

Answer 2

Sos but how is Tennis played without them? he asks puzzled!