NEW YORK – Roger Federer and Maria Sharapois have revealed they do not love the thought of beginning a Grand Slam event on Sunday, not on Monday, when the French opening first did it almost 20 years in the past.
Now that this development has reached the US Open this yr, even when crowds collect on Sunday morning earlier than the competitors begins, not all present gamers are precisely the Swap supporters.
“I hate the beginning on Sunday,” Australian Jordan Thompson ranks twenty sixth in singles and third in doubles. “The event will not begin on Sunday. It will finish on Sunday. I am notably positive that the gamers don’t need.”
Sadly, Thompson is scheduled to face Colentin Muttet on Sunday, and issues are occurring on the Flushing Meadows. There, there’s a 15-day singles competitors as an alternative of 14 days, and there’s no doubt that extra money from all types of sources is a part of the calculations behind the change.
“I am probably not a fan. I do not know why they needed to make it even longer. Properly, I do know why they did it – they will promote tickets for the additional day,” stated Jessica Pegra, runner-up within the US Open in 2024, fourth seed of the yr. “I am probably not that manner. I do not suppose so, particularly for lots of the gamers who play the week earlier than the slam. It makes all the things a bit of longer and a bit of harder. I do not suppose a variety of gamers need that.”
Pegra cited the transfer following the Australian opening transfer to do the identical in 2024, following the choice by the French Tennis Federation to start on Sunday 2006. Wimbledon is presently the one main that begins Monday.
“In lots of instances, they ask for participant suggestions and once we do it, they do not take heed to what we are saying. “Typically the gamers do not discover how they announce this stuff.”
This additionally occurs when gamers complain about their latest shift to longer non-slam tournaments that final for greater than per week.
Individuals in command of tennis seek advice from the upper prize cash they get from these prolonged tournaments. And modifications comparable to extra days coincides with a document enhance in prize cash to $85 million, together with $5 million to every single champion on the US Open.
USTA spokesman Brendan McIntyre stated that including the fifteenth day of the only “not solely will it present extra followers with the chance to see the primary draw single competitors in particular person, however it would additionally give followers all over the world the chance to look at on weekends and evenings.”
However there are gamers like Thompson, two-time US semifinalist Francistiáfo and Italy’s Matteo Arnald. He stated it will be a mistake to arrange somebody who made their event debut and received on Sunday not enjoying once more till Wednesday.
“I imply, I am going to get it,” American Tearfour, who was sown on the seventeenth and will probably be enjoying his first sport on Monday, stated of Sunday’s opening. “Why? If you may make cash a day and take guys there, then we’re just like the day we have already died (beforehand)… That is not a foul factor.
