SHANGHAI (AP)—Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick complained Tuesday that the ATP season is too long and that tennis players need a proper offseason.
Both players, who are in China for the Shanghai Masters, reiterated criticism of the sport’s punishing schedule.
“It’s impossible to play 1st of January and finish 5th of December,” said the 23-year-old Nadal, who did not defend his title at Wimbledon because of a knee injury. “It’s impossible to be here playing like what I did the last five years, playing a lot of matches and being all the time 100 percent without problems.”
Roddick, a veteran at 27, said players need a longer offseason to recover, and noted that both Roger Federer (fatigue) and Andy Murray (wrist injury) are skipping the Shanghai tournament.
“It’s ridiculous to think that you have a professional sport that doesn’t have a legitimate offseason to rest, get healthy, and then train,” Roddick said. “I just feel sooner or later that common sense has to prevail.”
The top players on the men’s tour are required to play at eight of the nine Master Series events—with Monte Carlo being the exception. And the top eight players of the year also have an extra week by qualifying for next month’s season-ending tournament in London.
Roddick said that merging the player’s union and tournament operation under the ATP umbrella, which was considered a cutting-edge concept that would benefit the players when instituted in 1990, hasn’t turned out to be overwhelmingly positive.
“I certainly don’t see any other sporting leagues or federations following our lead as far as not being individually represented,” Roddick said. “I don’t know that it’s up to the players to be making business decisions about the schedule. At a certain point, I wish our input would be.
“It’s got to be someone’s job to figure that out, right?”
อยากรบกวนลุงใหญ่ช่วยแปะรูปแคปของ order of play และตารางการซ้อม (practicing schedule) วันถัดไป(ถ้าออก)ที่นี่ให้หน่อยค่ะ เพราะไม่มีคอมใช้ เลยดู pdf จากเว็บเค้าไม่ได้ รบกวนหน่อยนะค้า จะได้วางแผนกะเวลาออกรร.วันถัดไปถูกอ่ะค่ะ แล้วจะเข้ามาเช็คเรื่อยๆนะคะ เพราะ pda รวัลย์เล่นพันทิปได้ :)
P'Pu very happy to be here na ka even STAN, BERDYCH and DEL are gone.
Don' t worry about us. Everybody are fine and have fun ka. We've met K.Tai who studying here and very helpful espesially the student 's price ticket for everyone(thank you very much for everything that u've done for us ka.)
I' ve a lot of things to tell all of u but my English is very poor, so we'll talk about everything in Shanghai when I go back to Bangkok na ka.
K.Pouy , sorry that I cannot help u about Tsonga na because I have a lot of things to do. (I keep run around to find Stan, Del, Safin, Berdych, Victor, Simon, Rafa, Nole, Ferrer, Gonzalez, Lopez, Mayer, Monfils, the coach, the chair umpire blaaaaaa..blaaaaa..blaaa...asking them for an autograph and photograph)
I think I walk around 10 km. per day but " I FEEL GOODDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!...ta da da da da SO GOOOD... da da...SO GOODDDDD.". 555
Mrs. & N' Kaew ka, Berdych is very cute, very charming and handsome, i love him very very much ka and absolutely i have his autograph eei...eei...
Ohhhhh!!! I'm so sleepy talk to all of u later na ka. Good night ka
'Morning ka, P'Nuch 's very happy to see and talk with Stan naka, I ask for his autograph and told him that I'm your big fan from Thailand ka, he smile with me and said "thank you". It made me so happy eventhough he' s gone tomorrow.
Khun Pui, I 'm sorry na, btw I'll cheer Tsonga for you tomorrow ka, he and Beneteau are finalists for double ka.
Khun Yai, I took so many Nole photo for you laew naka.
Now, we finished our breakfast and will go to sightseeing, afterthat we'll go to the stadium to watch semi final match
Nole v. Davydenko Nadal v. Lopez
Lets cheer Nole and Lopez naka
p.s. We saw poster " WE MISS YOU ROGER !!!" in the center court !!!! I would like to shout " I msii you Roger !"
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