Stefanos Tsitispas clearly criticizes longer Masters tournaments – extending them to two weeks “is a step backwards”

Last year, the ATP Masters in Rome, Shanghai and Madrid were expanded to two weeks.

This season, Indian Wells and Miami were added and the Canadian Open and the Cincinnati Masters will also be expanded accordingly.

Only Monte-Carlo and Paris remain in the old format. “Paris did it right, in a week. Exciting and easy to follow. Exactly how it should be,” wrote Tsitsipas in a post on “X” and expressed clear criticism.

“The two-week Masters have become a burden. The quality has definitely dropped. The players are not getting the recovery or training time they need, with constant games and no space for intensive work off the court,” stressed Tsitsipas.

Especially in times when the players are more in favor of equalizing the schedule, the changes have a contradictory effect, as the Greek believes.

Tsitsipas: “They fix what wasn’t broken”

“If the goal was to simplify the calendar, extending the period to two weeks is a step backwards. Sometimes it feels like they are fixing what wasn’t broken,” Tsitsipas wrote.

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