Would We Want Tennis Without The Knockout Tournaments?
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
