Sport prediction Stefanos Tsitsipas: If the goal was to unload the calendar, then extending each Masters to two weeks is a step back
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Andy Roddick and Stefanos Tsitsipas criticized the two-week Masters. Roddick said on his podcast: The two-week Masters is so stupid. This is just idiocy. Worst decision. I hate them. More people are getting injured because there are no free weeks to work out and strengthen their bodies. If you play every day, you can`t prepare intensively. The players are talking about this. The reviews were crap. Perhaps it was not worth introducing for a long time something that had not yet been tested. And Paris was magnificent. It only lasted a week and it was amazing.
They`re like this: We`re trying to free up the calendar a little. So what will we do? Let`s turn the Masters into two weeks! Oh, this will certainly improve the calendar.
Actions speak louder than words. They don`t really give a damn about the length of the calendar.
Stefanos Tsitsipas responded to him on Twitter: The two-week Masters was a drag. The quality has dropped. Players do not have the necessary time to recover and work intensively off the court.
It is ironic that the ATP switched to this format without knowing whether it would benefit the calendar and the quality of the game. Paris lasted a week, and rightly so. Fascinating and easy to follow. Exactly the way it should be.
If the goal was to unload the calendar, then extending each Masters to two weeks is a step backwards. Sometimes it seems like they are trying to fix something that is already working fine.
Tsitsipas` post was commented on by Yevgeny Kafelnikov: The Players` Council should intervene and return one-week tournaments.
Stan Wawrinka commented on a video published two years ago with Tsitsipas and ATP head Andrea Gaudenzi, which explained and promoted the tour`s development plan, including the two-week Masters.
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