Ega swetec Criticizing the tireless tennis calendar on Sunday, said that players should not be forced to compete in more than 20 tournaments in a year to maintain their ranking.
Former World No. 1 (now in fourth place) was described to be stuck in a system, where he had to select his country after leaving Poland’s Billy Jean King Cup qualifier in April and selecting his country focusing on himself.
“The scheduling is super intense. It is very intense. There is no point for us to play more than 20 tournaments a year,” Swetech asked reporters when asked about the biggest challenge from the players in terms of mental health. “Sometimes we need to sacrifice to play for your country because we need to remain with these WTA 500s playing, for example, because we are going to receive a void in the ranking.”
Swetek has mentioned the challenges submitted by the first tennis calendar, Citing its impact on mental health Before last year’s US Open and blames the loss of February 1 Lack of preparation,
“I think the rules about such obligations and compulsory tournaments pressurized us,” he said on Sunday. “… I think people will still see tennis, perhaps even more, if we play less tournaments. Quality will be better.”
The long tennis schedule was one of the corners of the trial filed by the Professional Tennis Players Association against the glory bodies of Sports in March, when the Sangh described it as “unstable” by the Sangh.
This year Wimbledon has a sweep eighth seed, and he is on the face Poleina kudematova Tuesday in the first round.
Clay-court experts with four French open titles fell into the semi-finals in Rolland Garos this year, and quickly switched to the grass, which has historically been their weakest surface.
She reached her first grass-court final on Saturday at the Bad Homborg Open, where she was left in tears after losing to top seeds. Jessica pegulaBut Swetek said that she is happy with her improvement on the grass as she gets caught with a sharp surface.
“This is not a very big change. It’s not like a 180 degree change. I will not say that suddenly everything is right, because it is still a difficult surface. It is still difficult,” said Switech. “Every year it seems that it is a bit easy to use on the surface, and then you have more time to develop as a player.”
Reuters contributed to this report.
