New York – Roger Federer And Maria Sharapova It was clarified that he did not love the idea of starting a Grand Slam tournament on Sunday instead of Monday, when the French Open was the first to do so about 20 years ago and he was on schedule for new, first day 1.
Now that this trend has reached the US Open this year, not every current player is a proposer of the switch, either the crowd was gathering on the site before the competition started.
“I hate on Sunday,” Jordan ThompsonAn Australian who ranks number 26 in singles and number 3 in doubles as high. “Tournaments do not start on Sunday; they finish on Sunday. Very sure no player will like [it]especially me. ,
I wish was to face Thompson Corentin Moutate On Sunday, when things were going to flushing meadows, where there would now be 15 days of single competition instead of 14, and there is no doubt that more money from all types of sources was part of calculus behind changes.
2024 US Open Runner-Up said, “I am not really a fan. Jessica pegulaThis year’s number 4 seeds, which were to play to play at Arthur Ash Stadium on Sunday night Mayor sheriff“I am not really for it. I don’t think there were a lot of players for it, especially those who play the week before a slam. Everything makes it a little longer and slightly hard. I don’t think a lot of players want so.”
Pegula cited the move of the US Tennis Association – which followed the decision of the French Tennis Federation starting on Sunday in 2006, and to do the Australian Open move in 2024 to do so – as an example of repeated failure of his game, to ask or follow for the input of athletes. Wimbledon is now the only head that begins on Monday.
“Very often, they ask for the player’s response and when we do [respond]They do not hear anything that we say, “Pegula said, one of the 20 players, who signed a letter in March, sent to those who run the Grand Slam events to ask for better communication, player more contribution to welfare and a high part of revenue.” The way they go about to announce these things, sometimes players do not know. ,
It also comes at a time when the players have complained about the recent shifts which have been in the non-government tournament for more than a week.
Tennis in -charge pointed to high prize money that comes from extended tournaments – and matches with an additional day -like change prize money, which records each single champion in the US Open to $ 85 million, including $ 5 million, including $ 5 million.
USTA spokesman Brendon McIntair said that adding the 15th day of the single not only “can provide more fans to view the main draw single competition, but also gives the opportunity to see fans around the world … [on television] Day and night in the weekend. ,
But such players, such as Thompson, twice US Open semi -finalists Francis tiafo And Matteo arranaldi In Italy, who said that it is a mistake to establish things so that someone who starts a tournament on Sunday and will not play again till Wednesday, changes every day in the slam.
“I mean, I receive it,” Tiafo, an American who is in 17th position and plays his first match on Monday, said about the inauguration on Sunday. “Why not? If you can earn money in a day and can withdraw people from there, and we are already here anyway [on what used to be] Like a dead day … it’s not a bad thing. But early in a slam two days? This is a bit strange. ,
