Alex de Minaur joined the tennis voice choir calling for the shortcut of the crowded male tennis calendar, warning that players are likely to end early with physical and mental exhaustion.
His lamentation came the day he quoted his own mental fatigue When he was surprised by Roland Garros in Alexander Bublik On Thursday, and while his Australian colleague Adam Walton had to fight with a shoulder injury in his defeat against Andrey Rublev.
De Minaur then chose the time to launch a wide range about the Men’s ATP Tour program, echoing the complaints that complaints were launched by his Australian compatriot Jordan Thompson earlier in the week.
“No one has a solution,” said Minaur, admitting that the tour of the tour affects it after its loss 2-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2.
“But the solution is simple: you shorten the calendar, right?”
“What is not normal is that for three years, four years, I had two days off after the Davis Cup and I went directly to pre-season, again directly in the new season.
“Once you have started, you don’t finish before November 24. So, it’s endless. The way it is structured … I had to face this. I’m still struggling with that.
“The solution is that you shorten, because what will happen is that the careers of the players will become more and more short because they will just go out mentally. There is simply too much tennis.”
Thompson, who fought all the season with three injuries which, according to him, were only exacerbated by the incessant tour, had previously described the ATP calendar as “shit” and “just a joke”.
The twice finalist of the French Open, Casper Ruud, also resumed the theme after his own overwhelming defeat against Nuno Borges on Wednesday while comparing the ATP classification system to a “rats race”, players feeling obliged to compete in the compulsory events of the male tour even if they undergo injuries.
“You feel that you are forced to play with certain rules that ATP has created with compulsory events,” he said.
“You feel like you are losing a lot if you don’t show up and you don’t play … The punishments are quite difficult, in terms of everyone will play, win points, and you won’t do it.
“If you do not play a compulsory event, they have reduced 25% of your end -of -year bonus.
“You force the players to show up injured or sick, or anything, when it is not what I think is very fair.”
Walton de Brisbane admitted after his right defeat that he was still fighting with an arm injury “it’s not great”.
“The season is quite relentless. I do not have luxury, like some of the best players, being able to play less. I suppose that if you are good enough, you don’t have to play as much to collect points, right?” N ° 91 of the world said.
“So, so that I can collect all the points, I have to play a lot. I have no solution, but yes, it’s very trying on the body.”
AAP
