Mess brings Wimbledon's schedule flaws to forefront

	Wimbledon fans have seen a lot of the tarp over the past week. AP
	MAILBAG Jon Wertheim will answer questions from SI.com users in his mailbag every Wednesday. Your name: Your e-mail address: Your home town: Enter your question:

And it was written: As long as there are rain delays, there will be baguettes:

When does one lost day of play lead to "a couple of extra five-set matches in the final week?" By the way, less than one day of missed play "wreaks havoc on the schedule?" Surely it takes two or three days of rain to do that, like on the occasions when play was allowed on the middle Sunday. Perhaps the customs officials should have confiscated your hyperbole at Heathrow.
-- Joel Haywood, Macon, Ga.

Those custom officials have bigger concerns right now. But I'm telling you, Clive and Byron and Simon and the rest of the boys in Club Stuffy are making a big mistake forsaking tennis on that middle Sunday. This weather -- worthy of Noah's Ark -- doesn't appear to be letting up anytime soon. We're looking at a slew of back-to-back matches later this week. (And, life being heavy into irony and all, yesterday (middle Sunday) was generally sunny and pleasant.)

Forget the no play on Sunday policy. When will the three other slams adopt a fifth-set tiebreaker rule? It's absurd to watch these fifth sets go on, often the action is anticlimactic, and the loser often loses on more of a fluke than what a tiebreak, I guess, is considered to be. Wimbledon can build a roof, welcome a challenge system, but somehow a final set tiebreaker is still a lark. I don't get it.
-- Stephen Thomas, Greensboro, N.C.

I'll see your suggestion and raise you one: When will tennis wake up and do away with best-of-five matches, at least in the first week of Slams? Television networks demand time certainty. The attention span of fans -- like it or not -- is waning. Players bodies are breaking down with increasing frequency. What does the sport do? At the four "tentpole events" players are forced to play to the death, sometimes ending matches 13-11 in the fifth set. Glaciers melt in less time. (Not to be outdone, Arnie Clement and Mikey Llodra beat Amer Delic and Bobby Reynolds, 14-12 in the fifth today. Best-of-five doubles? Why?)

If best-of-five were instituted only from the fourth round on -- imbuing the tournament with necessary gravitas, but preserving bodies, abetting television and unclogging the schedule at water-logged events such as this one -- where is the downside?

Let us knock off all Sunday games in all sports. Honor God and go to church.
-- Ralph Henson, Amarillo, Texas

I reprint this as neither endorsement nor condemnation, but, for the record, at least 10 of you wrote nearly identical e-mails.