Tennis' grand slams are "attempting to partner with a collection of the sport’s other best-known tournaments" in what "could become the most revolutionary transformation of the game since the 1990s." Their goal is to "form a partnership with at least the 10 largest tournaments and their own events" -- Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open and the Australian Open -- to "create a premium tour that resembles a tennis version of Formula 1." The move comes as the sport’s most powerful entities, execs and top players have "come to accept that tennis in its current form does not work nearly as well as it should." Those factors, officials worry, have "left tennis prone to the kind of aggressive disruption that has plagued golf the past two seasons," as the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf venture "cleaved top players" from the PGA Tour (THE ATHLETIC, 11/28).
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