But also on the horizon is the Canadian Open, with the ATP Tour<\/a> heading to Toronto and the WTA Tour<\/a> heading to Montreal.<\/p>\n The ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 tournaments start later this month, with the US Open following shortly afterwards in the calendar.<\/p>\n The tennis schedule certainly needs analysing<\/a> amid this current run, highlighted by the withdrawal of many star names from the upcoming events.<\/p>\n Grand Slams themselves have been a major focus of the debate, with Nick Kyrgios wanting best-of-five sets from the quarterfinals onwards<\/a> for both men and women.<\/p>\n But sharing his verdict on such a change midway through an event, former world number one Andy Roddick<\/a> said on his Served podcast: \u201cI don\u2019t like starting a tournament one way and then changing the entire dynamic of the tournament at a panic.<\/p>\n READ MORE: ATP Mubadala Citi DC Open 2025 preview: who is playing when, prize money and full schedule<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThere are things that women go through and most likely a lot of them are going through at some point over the course of a two week event that men don\u2019t have to go through. So very simply, that gets left out of every argument and rolling the dice on when that happens is insane.<\/p>\n \u201cYou throw in best of five and there is some contrast overlap with what a woman is going through at that time. I don\u2019t like it at all. I don\u2019t like starting a tournament in one format and finishing it in one format.<\/p>\n \u201cI did not like it in the Masters 1000 on the men\u2019s side, when you get to the final and they go \u2018I know you have had a long week, but let\u2019s play seven hours before we go to a Grand Slam\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t like starting a tournament one way and finishing it in another, that does not define the best players.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it completely changes the dynamic of what has already been accomplished in that Slam up until that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n What are the ATP and WTA schedules up to the US Open?<\/p>\n While there are plenty of high-profile players in action in the build-up to the US Open, withdrawals have unfortunately been a common theme.<\/p>\n![\"Venus](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2226379651-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesAndy Roddick disagrees with Nick Kyrgios\u2019 proposed Grand Slam change<\/p>\n