Andy Roddick has lashed out at ATP concerning the scheduling of ATP Masters 1000 tournaments with the pattern that more and more results in creating two-week tournaments for this class of occasions. A change that Roddick calls silly and that he says he hates within the strongest attainable means. Roddick has expressed his disapproval with out lacking a beat, underlining that longer tournaments have the impact of making extra put on and tear on gamers, reasonably than providing a greater present.
In his podcast Served with, the previous American tennis participant defined: “I can truthfully say that the 2 weeks of the ATP Masters 1000 are so silly. It is the worst factor. I hate it. There is a feeling that extra gamers have gotten injured as a result of you may’t work in your off weeks to get stronger bodily. When you play each different day you may’t go and do intense work. The gamers say that. Perhaps the calendar should not have been so busy. Paris-Bercy was nice: one week. It is nice. All you need to do is open up the calendar and what will we do? We do the Masters 1000 over two weeks. Oh, that can assist the calendar!”
The format has sparked lots of debate, with many tennis gamers expressing doubts. Others, nonetheless, help the change, which successfully opens the doorways of the ATP Masters 1000 to a higher variety of gamers.
On the heels of the Paris Masters, Andy and @jon_wertheim focus on mounting considerations for Andrey Rublev and potential protections that may be put in place by the ATPhttps://t.co/Wc4bhCQJlc pic.twitter.com/4SJVFW70Sp
— Served with Andy Roddick (@Served_Podcast) November 5, 2024
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However we NEED to listen to it from you- if you happen to may invite any three gamers, alive or not, to play Dingles with you…who wouldn’t it be? pic.twitter.com/N6f5QdC5fg
— Served with Andy Roddick (@Served_Podcast) November 2, 2024