Luckily there is a fledgling organization, World Team Tennis (WTT), that's at the forefront of bringing the sport completely into the 21st century.
Clijsters, who gave birth to daughter Jade Elie last February, has recently been in training and will play World Team Tennis in the United States in July.
In 1974, she co-founded the World Team Tennis (WTT) Pro League where men and women play professional tennis on the same team and contribute equally to the outcome.
World Team Tennis, which features a mix of young up-and-comers, former big-name pros, and a few current tour players who make time between tournaments, markets itself as a fan-friendly league that wants the crowd involved.
The no-ad system is used in King's World Team Tennis competition, and the ATP is experimenting with no lets on serves in Challenger events, a sign that they may bring it to pro events in the future.
In men's tennis, Argentina won the World Team Cup for the fourth time by beating the United States 2-1 in Dusseldorf.
Recent results are promising, with the British 14 and under boys coming fourth in the World Junior Tennis Championships and the 16 and under team coming second in the prestigious European Summer Cup.
They will now play Croatia at home on July 9-11 in the quarterfinals of the premier team event in tennis after their first-ever victory in the World Group.
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Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.
It is a remarkable record for a country of approximately 10 million people and with no great tradition in tennis, rather a passion for team sports such as football (Serbia qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals) and basketball.
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