{"id":284379,"date":"2025-11-15T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284379\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:03:11","slug":"auger-aliassime-bucks-trend-of-player-exhaustion-complaints-they-lost-perspective-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284379\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime bucks trend of player exhaustion complaints: \u201cThey lost perspective completely\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> surprisingly pushed back against the prevailing narrative that players on Tour are physically and mentally worn out<\/a> from the demanding schedule.<\/p>\n

Countering the growing calls for calendar cuts, Auger-Aliassime declared a firm defense of the grind, saying many players \u201clost perspective completely\u201d on how fortunate they are to compete.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how guys don\u2019t enjoy it, to be honest,\u201d Auger-Aliassime said on Friday after qualifying for the semifinals of the ATP Finals<\/a>. \u201cI get that you can get tired. I\u2019m tired, too. But every day I wake up and I enjoy it. I enjoy that I\u2019m here. Even if I lose matches, it\u2019s okay, I\u2019m pissed for a day.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you want to play fewer tournaments, stay home. Nobody\u2019s forcing you to be here.<\/p>\n

The exact question asked was: \u201cPlayers seem to be physically or mentally exhausted or both. You look like you\u2019re kind of enjoying it. It shouldn\u2019t be so rare, but it feels like it is. Is that the case? What is your secret?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do trips around and I go see different circumstances around the world,\u201d the Canadian, fresh No.5 at the rankings, added. \u201cI mean, we\u2019re just lucky and blessed. I don\u2019t know. If you want to play fewer tournaments, stay home. Nobody\u2019s forcing you to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n \"\"
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime is not 100% right here, as ATP rules state that all elite players must play all the Grand Slams (which they would do regardless), but also 8 Masters 1000 (only Monte-Carlo being optional), and 4 ATP 500 including one after the US Open.<\/p>\n

De Minaur : \u201cNot great numbers for our sport\u201d<\/p>\n

New thing on Tour is that a majority of the Masters 1000 tournaments are now played over more than one week. A movement of protest by players was highlighted this season and even amplified by Alex de Minaur on Thursday, as he qualified for the semifinals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve seen this year the number of injuries,\u201d the Australian stated, being himself disturbed by a hip injury<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s been the highest it\u2019s ever been on tour, right? Those are not great numbers for our sport. We need to be looking after the players and their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AlexAlex de Minaur, ATP Finals 2025 | \u00a9 Action Plus \/ PsNewz<\/p>\n

\u201cThe toughest thing as a player is you\u2019re seeded and you make the fourth round. You play the fourth round in Indian Wells, the fourth round in Miami (12-day events each). You could potentially play six matches in a month, which is not enough,\u201d de Minaur said, reflecting a sentiment many players share.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if you ask any of the players out there, they will all rather have the one-week events because you go out there, you play, once you\u2019re done, you\u2019re done. Yeah, it allows us players to switch off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s invitation to do more<\/p>\n

This week, ATP president Andrea Gaudenzi pushed for a seven-week break as a new rule, while still defending the legitimacy of the two-week Masters 1000 tournaments.<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic mentioned earlier in 2025 that this topic needs strong involvement from the players to be ever considered. \u201cGoing out in the media and talking about this and that, okay, it might stir up some energy or some attention\u201d he said six weeks ago in Shanghai. \u201cBut at the end of the day, it\u2019s not going to change. I know it from my personal experience, trust me\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 38-year old Serbian urged top players to actively participate in understanding and reforming the system, rather than just voicing complaints. \u201cYou have to invest the time, you have to invest energy yourself, not your agent, not your team, not your parents, not anybody, yourself, to dedicate yourself to understand how the system works, to understand what are the things that can be done to be reversed, to be improved in terms of the players\u2019 interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime surprisingly pushed back against the prevailing narrative that players on Tour are physically and mentally worn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-284379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}