Wimbledon's [ Images ] slowing grass courts are hastening the end of serve-volley in tennis, former world number one Mats Wilander said on Monday.

"I'm personally very disappointed [at] the way they are making Wimbledon these days," Wilander told reporters.

"We're slowly losing the style of playing tennis which is the serve and volley."

Wilander, Sweden's non-playing captain for this weekend's Davis Cup World Group play-off tie in New Delhi [ Images ], said ideally players should mix serve and volley with a solid baseline game.

"But we are slowly losing that because the grass courts in Wimbledon are getting slower and slower," said the 41-year-old, winner of seven Grand Slam titles in the 1980s.

Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam tournament to be played on grass. The French Open [ Images ] is played on clay and the Australian and US Opens on hard courts.

Wilander said he believed such courts did not help Britain realise their dream of producing a first homegrown men's champion since Fred Perry won Wimbledon and the US Open [ Images ] in 1936, despite having two serve-volleyers in their ranks.

"I'm not sure what they are thinking in England [ Images ] because you have [British] players like Tim Henman [ Images ] and Greg Rusedski [ Images ]," he said.

"England might be the only country in the world who don't actually try and [prepare courts to] suit them. It seems they are doing everything they can for them not to win."