The NCAA has approved an effort to shorten tennis matches in the interest of creating a more fan friendly event.
On August 13, the NCAA announced that the Division 1 Competition Oversight Committee had approved changes to the format for the 2016 NCAA Tennis Tournament. The change is the adoption of "no-ad" scoring for the event. No-ad scoring eliminates the requirement that a player must win a game by two points when the game score reaches 40-40, or deuce. Under no-ad scoring, when a game reaches 40-40, the players play a final point for the game.