"Obviously the weather's been bad, but they made a very early decision on the first round and then they made a very, very early decision on the second round."
Groth, who also lost in the first round of the singles tournament, suggested that players should know what they are getting into. "London hasn't got the best weather in the world,” the Aussie said. "You've got to be prepared to play best-of-five singles and doubles if they're the events you enter."
Defending doubles champions Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau were defeated in straight sets in the first round.
While other Grand Slams play the entire doubles tournament as best-of-three sets, at Wimbledon it means changing the rules during the event.
"The other Slams, we go in knowing it's best of three," Lindstedt told TENNIS.com. “It's supposed to be a best of five-of-five tournament, and then you take it away—for us doubles guys, we love to play five sets.
"The reason I love best-of-five so much is in best-of-five you cannot walk off the court and go like, 'I got unlucky.' It's too long of a match. The better team will most cases come with a win. It's a lot of tennis to be played for anyone that's in more than one event, but that's what we think. If you have a best-of-five event, you should stick to a best-of-five event."
That opinion was not shared by Nicolas Mahut, who won his third-round singles match against doubles partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert on Saturday, but then saw his first-round doubles match postponed for yet another day.
The Frenchman not only likes the reduction across the first two rounds—he would like to see it applied to the entire event. "It's really good for when a player is involved in singles, it's really good to play best-of-three," Mahut told TENNIS.com. "And I think this is something they have to think about in here in Wimbledon, to play all the matches best of three and maybe, maybe to keep the final best of five. I think it's good news for us to start best-of-three."