Mourtatoglou spoke to Tennis365<\/a> about his event earlier this year, as he insisted it was designed to complement traditional tennis rather than offer an alternative.<\/p>\n” style=”width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;”><\/p>\n
\u201cFans can love classical tennis and they can also love UTS,\u201d Mouratoglou told Tennis365 in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal of UTS is mostly to bring new fans to tennis and younger fans, but of course, any tennis fan is more than welcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t even understand how traditional tennis events can complain about having competition from UTS. You know, in every single field in the world, there is competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s normal and it\u2019s sane. What is not sane is to have no competition. When there is competition, it lifts everyone up. It pushes everyone to do better, to improve. So that\u2019s a great thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it a lot of tournaments altogether, yes, it is for sure it is. Do the players have to make choices? Yes, they do, but give them the right to make choices with the things that they feel is the best for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf someone plays UTS, a player, he loves it, he thinks it improves his game because it\u2019s played differently and it pushes them to also develop other things.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think everybody\u2019s winning there and again, I don\u2019t see any problem with competition. I think if in the world, if there was, there would be no competition, it would be a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remember my first speech to the investors. Of course, the idea was to represent a very modern way to play tennis, to bring younger fans to this sport, but I was picturing incredible venues, because it adds so much when you enter this stage and your heart is beating before everything starts. So, yes, it was part of the idea, but when we go to Hong Kong in an incredibly modern place, it\u2019s the same. We want to do things that are different and modern things for people.\u201d<\/p>\n
The three-day UTS Grand Final gets underway at London\u2019s Copper Box on December 5 and with tickets for all sessions nearly sold out, it confirms the public demand for this brash and engaging brand of tennis is growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stunning prize money pot has been revealed for the final big event of the tennis year in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-312651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}