{"id":37022,"date":"2025-07-31T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37022\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:11:09","slug":"the-canadian-opens-change-means-coco-gauffs-old-complaint-about-the-tournament-is-unlikely-to-happen-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian Open’s change means Coco Gauff’s old complaint about the tournament is unlikely to happen this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coco Gauff is into the Round of 32 at the Canadian Open, but to get there, she had to summon all her grit and determination.<\/p>\n

After all, she was pushed to the brink by compatriot Danielle Collins, who actually served for the match before her 21-year-old opponent won the deciding third set on a tiebreak.<\/p>\n

A dramatic, fitting conclusion to a fine night of tennis, lasting just shy of three hours, such a gruelling clash actually provoked memories of the issues faced at this very tournament two years ago.<\/p>\n

Especially in one particular match, where Elena Rybakina faced Daria Kasatkina in the quarter-final.<\/p>\n

\"ElenaPhoto by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

In a clash that lasted just shy of three and a half hours, she admitted she felt \u2018destroyed\u2019 afterwards, concluding her clash after 3am.<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff<\/a> certainly had plenty to say on the matter at the time.<\/p>\n

What Coco Gauff said about the Canadian Open scheduling in 2023<\/p>\n

Rightly, she was furious.<\/p>\n

After all, when it comes to player welfare, this is as poor as it gets, to force one of the sport\u2019s biggest stars to fight deep into the night because of poor scheduling.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it seems like that issue may have been fixed with the Canadian Open\u2019s<\/a> extension this year, now a 12-day event.<\/p>\n

But, at the time, Gauff let loose: \u201cRybakina\u2019s match she finished at 3am, which is insane. She\u2019s right. It does set you up for a terrible week. I do think some of the tournaments, especially the one-week tournaments where there\u2019s not that extra day, have to do better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was 100% chance of rain that day at 6 pm. We knew. I wasn\u2019t in Montreal, I was on the way to Cincinnati & I knew they weren\u2019t playing that 6 pm match. Personally, I think they could\u2019ve moved that match to the 2nd stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it sets up a bad week for that person and also the fans didn\u2019t get to see a quality match in the final. Unfortunately, I think Elena & Iga said the same, there\u2019s not much the players can do in that situation. We can fight. <\/p>\n

\"CocoPhoto by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, when I had that night match against Marketa because of the rain, I really fought for the not-before 2:00 time, that saved me the extra 30 minutes in the morning.. But it\u2019s tough because the tournament is trying to work with TV. There\u2019s a lot of things people don\u2019t realise. It\u2019s not as easy as just saying, Let\u2019s move all the matches up, because we still have to sell our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite that, Gauff gave her thoughts on the Canadian Open crowd<\/a> ahead of the event, and said she did like one other change being made this year. <\/p>\n

Is the longer Canadian Open a good or a bad thing?<\/p>\n

There are many different schools of thought when it comes to elongating tournaments, with players having given their thoughts on both sides.<\/p>\n

Some would argue that by extending these events, it only drags out more mentally draining periods.<\/p>\n

The Grand Slams are the pinnacle of tennis, across a 14-day period, which pushes players to their physical and mental limits. To have some Masters 1000 events just two days shy of that seems smart in theory, to prevent the relentless day after day matches and allow for smarter scheduling.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

However, it also forces players to remain in that stressful bubble for longer, adding to an already high-pressure atmosphere.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about preference, and for Gauff, after her complaints two years ago, the Canadian Open\u2019s change seems like a logical solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff is into the Round of 32 at the Canadian Open, but to get there, she had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,17581,4305,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-37022","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-canadian-open","11":"tag-coco-gauff","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37022","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=37022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}