Carlos Alcaraz destroys ATP: "They play with our health"

Carlos Alcaraz, after a sensational begin to his profession, started to endure some bodily issues which led him to steer clear of the ATP Tour for some intervals. With a schedule filled with appointments and commitments on a weekly foundation, because the finish of the 2022 season, the younger Spaniard has additionally struggled to stability his schedule. And contemplating his tennis, which may be very bodily demanding, the dense ATP schedule has left him dealing with questions.

Coming again on the courtroom in Buenos Aires after the Australian Open 2024, the Spanish tennis participant expressed his disagreement with the duty for tennis gamers within the Prime 30 to play a minimum of 16 tournaments a yr. The well being of the athletes, in accordance with Carlitos, is overshadowed by the ATP, in an effort to assure the followers spectacle and leisure.

“In the intervening time the calendar is simply too busy. Should you begin the season within the first week of racing, you need to depart residence on 25 or 26 December and solely end at first of the next December. It is virtually a yr of continuous journey and touring. I believe they power us to play too many tournaments and that the schedule is simply too lengthy

In the end, what the ATP is doing is enjoying with the well being of the gamers, having to be on the highest stage for thus lengthy, match after match. That is why I believe one thing wants to alter and discover a resolution,” mentioned Carlitos in a latest interview with the Spanish newspaper Olè.

Alcaraz is sad of the present ATP schedule

Competitors days have been lengthened for nearly all ATP Masters 1000 tournaments of the season, and all gamers within the top-30 of the ATP rankings are obliged to play a minimum of 16 tournaments per yr: the 4 Slams, the 9 ATP Masters 1000s, 2 ATP 500 and one ATP 250.

The busy ATP schedule has led many tennis gamers and insiders to argue with the lads’s board’s option to make the season so packed. With a really tight schedule for years now, to which this yr shall be added the Olympics and a sequence of exhibition occasions, tennis gamers are more and more confronted with an effort that results in more and more frequent accidents.

It should even be mentioned that Alcaraz can even participate within the million-dollar exhibition tournaments of the Hopman Cup and the Laver Cup, along with the Six Kings Slams and the match on March 3 in Las Vegas in opposition to Rafael Nadal, which shall be broadcast on Netflix. However the aggressive depth of those occasions is definitely not akin to that of the primary tournaments.