Regarding the demanding nature of the ATP Tour schedule, the 28-year-old commented: \u201cIt\u2019s an ongoing discussion. Nothing has changed over the last few months.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve all said it. It feels like we\u2019re playing more and more, and our schedule is more dense than ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve personally always felt like tennis deserves a proper offseason. Tennis deserves a proper vacation after the season is done and a proper training time, which we don\u2019t really have.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always take the example of Alex de Minaur. He played his last match in Davis Cup last year, I think the 27th of November and played the first match at the United Cup on the 27th of December.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you don\u2019t really have time to go for a two-week vacation and then to not play tennis, to build your body for the following season, and then to build the tennis base for Australian Open.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zverev added: \u201cFor me, it\u2019s just too dense, too much from start to finish, because we\u2019re starting the season with a Grand Slam, and we are finishing the season with the World Tour Finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t really say I\u2019m taking the first month of this season off, I\u2019m taking the last month of the season off.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s my opinion. I don\u2019t know how everybody else feels, but I would just wish for everybody, especially for the young guys here, who will be on tour for the next 15 years, that they\u2019re going to get proper rest time at the end of the year. That\u2019s my thought on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holger Rune, his Team Europe teammate, stated: \u201cTotally agree.\u201d<\/p>\n
How the ATP\u2019s brief offseason impacts players<\/p>\n
The Moselle Open in France, wrapping up on 8 November, is the final stop of the 2025 ATP calendar for most players.<\/p>\n
But for those who make it to the ATP Finals, their season does not end until 16 November. And anyone involved in the Davis Cup Finals plays through to 23 November, while the Next Gen ATP Finals run into mid-December.<\/p>\n
With the 2026 season getting underway on 5 January in Brisbane, Zverev and others will not get much more than a month off before it all starts again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regarding the demanding nature of the ATP Tour schedule, the 28-year-old commented: \u201cIt\u2019s an ongoing discussion. Nothing has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-158817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}