By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, October 13, 2025
Photo Credit: Matthew Calvis
The vague demands of the pro district can make the ATP calendar feel like “a mouse race” says Casper Ruud.
Speaking forward, Ruud plans to run his schedule to make the season more manageable.
In an exclusive interview with Nicholas albek i bolavip At Stockholm today, Ruud repeated his statement about the ATP punitive schedule – and how he plans to sail it. Read all Ruud Bolavip Interview here.
Formerly -Bota Nr. 2 Ruud said he agrees with comments Novak Djokovic Made in Shanghai last week: The season is just too long.
“Of course, Novak has a point. He has more experience than any other player,” Ruud said Bolavip’s Nicholas Albek. “Of course, you can choose and choose in some way because we are not employed by ATP; we are chiefs of our schedule.
“What I criticized and talked to French Open was that there is an economic motive to play and not pass any Master 1000 with the bonus and everything.
“But yes, of course, if you’re in the top 10, 15 ball, you make a lot of money, but also spend a lot of money with all the costs you have, so you don’t want to lose money if you don’t need it.
“I know that if you are not healthy or have no right to play, you will not get to jail if you don’t play, but there is also an economic incentive to play, and some people care more about it than others. But I think the season is long.”
Asked about the extension of ATP Masters 1000 this season, Djokovic said he has always been against him.
“I felt from the beginning I was against him. Indeed, even when I was in the Council, I think I was at a time when the council president, so I was not supportive of it,” Gjokovic said last week at Rolex Shanghai Masters. “I think that for players is not well.
“From one point of view you can say, I mean, for me at my age now, to have the days between the tournaments is good. But I think in general for most players I just take the days in the schedule, on the calendar. Personally, I’m not supportive of it.
“I understand that there is a reversal for tournaments and so on, but as a player I never liked me.
26-year-old Ruud, a second place in Stockholm, said he plans to cut his schedule and absorb the financial blow in an effort to maintain his health.
“Having a mandatory event like Paris that late in the season makes the season really, really long,” Ruud said. “The same thing about everyone, but moving forward I will plan the schedule a little differently, perhaps bypassing some events here and there.”
“I’ve had a very wild 3 to 4 years since I reached the top 10. I played a lot of events, and played some exhibitions in Preseo, so these are some choices I made, which I see again and I think I shouldn’t have made. For the future, this is something I would consider.”
Next to an issue that Ruud has thought of in the past. Following his second -round open -open round, Ruud indicated that he had competed with a knee injury mainly due to the pressure point and financial impact.
“It is a kind like a mouse race when it comes to rankings, too. You think you are forced to play with certain rules that ATP has created with mandatory events,” Rurand Garros said at the beginning of this season. “You feel like you lose a lot if you don’t appear and play, as economically, with views, wise and wise and wise.
“For me I know that these weeks and months are really important for the rest of the year and my career. Of course, if my foot is broken, I won’t 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 do.”
Ruud, who suffered a second round losses in Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open this season, withdrew from his opening Rolex Shanghai Masters in the third set against Zizou Bergs. Ruud aims to jump back in Stockholm where he reached the quarter -finals last year.
