10 Rule Changes That Should Be Made In Sport

10. Players Timed Between Points In Tennis

Tennis players are supposed to have 20 seconds between points at Grand Slam tournaments and 25 seconds on their respective tours but we frequently see servers getting away with taking longer as they go through their own personal routine.

That should be deemed acceptable if the two players have just completed an exhausting 20-shot rally but not if either player has dominated the previous point.

Time-violation warnings are sometimes given out by the umpire but depending on the official, they can be enforced after the first warning or the third. There is little consistency and there have been examples in the past where it has generally been accepted that a couple of the biggest names in the sport don't fall foul of this rule as often as they should.

Players can be timed by umpires but the rules for going over the time limit are not strictly enforced. A clock that is visible to supporters would only encourage countdowns when players are close to exceeding the limit but a timing method should be introduced where umpires are made accountable when they give too much leeway to players continually breaking the rules.