{"id":505571,"date":"2026-02-28T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505571\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:24:09","slug":"alcaraz-sinner-djokovic-choose-their-match-times-tennistemple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505571\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alcaraz, Sinner &#038; Djokovic Choose Their Match Times&#8217; \u2022 TennisTemple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fritz Exposes Tennis Hierarchy: Top Players Dictate Scheduling, Leaving Others With Little Say<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772287557272.webp.webp\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Taylor Fritz Reveals Circuit Privilege: 'Alcaraz, Sinner &amp; Djokovic Choose Their Match Times'\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 AFP<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1759296013760.webp.webp\" alt=\"Jules Hypolite\" class=\"author-photo-main\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> 1 min to read<\/p>\n<p>While awaiting Indian Wells, a tournament he won in 2022, Taylor Fritz took time to chat with fans on his Twitch channel yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He notably spoke about the privilege of top players being able to choose the time they wish to play.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;If I Face One of Those Players, They Decide&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The players who truly have an advantage when requesting match times are those highest in the rankings. If Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and Novak Djokovic are playing, they&#8217;ll get the time slots they want.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I don&#8217;t have priority, so I can&#8217;t choose the time if I&#8217;m playing on the main court. However, if I&#8217;m playing, for example, on court number 2, I can request something like: &#8216;Don&#8217;t schedule me first, but don&#8217;t put me in the night session either.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the extent of my room for maneuver. Now, as soon as I have to face one of these top players, they decide. If I play against Novak and he wants to play in the evening, I&#8217;ll be scheduled in the evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fritz Exposes Tennis Hierarchy: Top Players Dictate Scheduling, Leaving Others With Little Say \u00a9 AFP 1 min to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-505571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505571","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=505571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}