By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_now | Monday, June 16, 2025
Photo Credit: US Open/Usta
And Evans Is not afraid to work overtime.
Last August, a bold Evans won the longest match in the history of Open US, beating Karen Khachanov 6-7 (6), 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4 in five hours and 35 minutes.
The past tense eclipsed the previous record with nine minutes.
Before 7-5, 6-2 his upset with seventh seed Frances Tiophoe At Queen’s Club today, Evans told BBC players should be “careful careful” tennis -filled schedule showing more tours means more work opportunities for players.
Some stars including IgA Swiatek, Carlos Alcaraz, Alex Desk AND Casper Ruud Everyone has criticized the calendar filled with this season. Evans said the stars should apply a real -world perspective in the tennis world.
“I think we are first and foremost in a lucky position when I hear about the schedules (complaints), these people should not play every week. You are allowed not to play,” Evans BBC told. “The reason they play is so they get their bonus pool.
“We have to be careful to complain. We have a lot of work that is good. There are a lot of people in the world who fight for work, so we have to be careful to design around the difficult schedule. We are allowed to take weeks, we are independent contractors, so I am where I stay in it.”
Following his early release from Roland Garros last month, Ruud hit the “Thousand Race” which is the ATP tour with a split stroke saying that wild hours, ranking points in the game, and financial punishment if you are missing a mandatory event forces players to compete even when injured.
“It is a kind like a mouse race when it comes to ranking, too,” Ruud told the media in Paris. “Of course, if my foot is broken, I will not play. But it is difficult anyway, especially when there is a time with mandatory events to overcome them because the sentences are quite difficult, in terms of everyone else they will play, earn points, and you will not.
“There is also a specified bonus system that has been reduced if you do not appear in mandatory events. It is a controversial system because on the one hand you do not want to appear damaged, and maybe give it another place.
“I’m not sure if you’re aware, but if you don’t play a mandatory event, they cut 25% of your end of the year bonus. You are a forced type of players to appear damaged or ill, or whatever, when that’s not what I think is too right.”
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De Minaur, whose turn from four consecutive quarter -finals was snapped at Roland Garros, called ATP to adopt a simple solution or face the consequences: shorten the season or shorten the players’ career.
“The solution is for you to cut it because what will happen is that the player’s career will become shorter and shorter because they will simply burn mentally,” De Mineur said. “There is only a lot of tennis.”
Nr. World “Look, there is no excuse, again, for today, on its own, what happened today. I have to look at myself in the mirror and discover the reasoning, because ultimately it will not change. It will not look like it will change. I have to fit and make sure it won’t happen again.”
