Stefanos Tsitsipas doesn’t often speak wooden language. “The two-week Masters 1000 has become a chore”estimated on the 12the world player on the social network, in reaction to a video by the former American world number one, Andy Roddick, who also denounced the extension of the duration of the Masters 1000, the most important tournaments after the four Grand Slams.
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For Tsitsipas, triple winner of the Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, a week long like that of Paris, “players do not benefit from the necessary recovery or training time, with matches constantly and no room for intense work off the court”. Due to the extension to two weeks of most Masters 1000, “the quality of the game has dropped”.
“Paris was right”
“Paris was right, everything was over in a week. Exciting and easy to follow, just what you should do »insisted the Greek, eliminated in the quarter-finals in the French capital.
Organized in March, the first two Masters 1000 of the season (Indian Wells and Miami) have long been spread over two weeks.
But what was an exception is about to become the norm, with the extension to 12 days of competition of the Masters 1000 in Rome, Madrid and Shanghai in 2023 and that planned for 2025 of the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati and Canada.
Among the nine Masters 1000 of the 2025 season, only those of Monte-Carlo in the spring and Paris in the fall will retain the historic format of a week of competition.
For Tsitsipas, “if the goal is to lighten the schedule”the lengthening of most Masters 1000 is “a step back”.
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