Taylor Fritz has called for the tennis season to be shortened as he reacted to the host of big-name withdrawals from the 2025 Canadian Open.<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner<\/a>, Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Jack Draper<\/a> and Novak Djokovic<\/a> \u2014 four of the top six players in the ATP Rankings \u2014 have pulled out of the Masters event in Toronto. Sebastian Korda, Hubert Hurkacz and Jordan Thompson have also withdrawn from the tournament.<\/p>\n World No 3 Alexander Zverev is set to be the top seed in Canada, while fourth-ranked Fritz is projected to be seeded second. Lorenzo Musetti and Ben Shelton, who are ranked seventh and eighth, will be seeded third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n Prior to his appearance at the ATP 500 event in Washington, Fritz<\/a> labelled the tennis schedule \u201cinsane.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I think, I mean, probably pretty much all the players for a long time have been asking for the season to be shorter, but all we are doing is just lengthening it, adding more stuff, we\u2019re adding more, like, longer tournaments,\u201d the American said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Hopman Cup was after Wimbledon. I didn\u2019t even know this was going on. They had an event with Felix [Auger-Aliassime] and [Flavio] Cobolli playing a tournament right after Wimbledon and one of them is coming and playing here. It\u2019s insane, we are just adding stuff to the calendar over and over again.<\/p>\n \u201cI think they shortened parts to obviously give themselves an extra week to do this, to make it the three weeks between the two tournaments (Wimbledon and Canada).<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz apologises to fans as he reveals reason for key schedule decision<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The 7 men with the best win rate in ATP Tour finals: Novak Djokovic on 69.7%, Rafael Nadal 6th<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s funny how we can shorten, we find ways to shorten the schedule to make room for other tournaments, but we can\u2019t find room to shorten the schedule just for there to be nothing.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d love to see it go back to just two weeks and maybe we can have an extra \u2014 can shorten the season a week. I don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s a lot of tennis. It\u2019s a lot of tennis upcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n On the controversial 12-day Masters 1000 format, the 27-year-old added: \u201cTo be honest, I am complaining about the length of the two-week tournaments, but at the same time, I don\u2019t dislike playing a match and having a day off and playing a match.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s weird. It\u2019s just kind of like kind of, like, mindset and feeling I\u2019m in. Some weeks I might prefer just to go all at once, and some weeks I might prefer to have a day off after my matches.\u201d<\/p>\n Fritz will face world No 105 Aleksandar Vukic in his opening match at the Citi Open.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0ATP Canadian Open entry list: Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic lead big withdrawals<\/a> The post Taylor Fritz calls for solution to \u2018insane\u2019 tennis issue after Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic schedule decision<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taylor Fritz has called for the tennis season to be shortened as he reacted to the host of big-name withdrawals from the 2025 Canadian Open. Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Jack Draper and Novak Djokovic \u2014 four of the top six players in the ATP Rankings \u2014 have pulled out of the Masters event in Toronto. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n
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