{"id":78875,"date":"2025-08-18T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78875\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:18:10","slug":"the-atp-tour-chairman-defends-tennis-schedule-despite-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinners-withdrawal-from-canadian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78875\/","title":{"rendered":"The ATP Tour chairman defends tennis schedule despite Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s withdrawal from Canadian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ATP Tour has come under much scrutiny recently after a wave of criticism regarding their scheduling.<\/p>\n

Recently, the ATP tour was told their schedule does not work<\/a>, after numerous high-profile players withdrew from the Canadian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Jannik Sinner and Jack Draper<\/a> all withdrew from the tournament before the start date. All players cited injury as the reason for their withdrawals.<\/p>\n

\"JannikPhoto by Tim Clayton\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The withdrawals have raised concerns regarding the scheduling, and the ATP Tour<\/a> chairman has weighed in on the discussion.<\/p>\n

The chairman, who previously commented on Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s schedule concerns<\/a>, spoke to the ATP Tour about the spate of withdrawals.<\/p>\n

Andrea Gaudenzi defends the tennis schedule after Canadian Open withdrawals<\/p>\n

Andrea Gaudenzi, Chairman of the ATP Tour, discussed the withdrawals of the top ATP Tour players during a question-and-answer interview on the ATP Tour website.<\/p>\n

While Gaudenzi acknowledged the difficulty a tournament faces when key players withdraw, he maintained that player participation at Masters 1000 events has been \u2018strong\u2019 in recent years.<\/p>\n

Gaudenzi, who also discussed the calendar complexity and playing commitments during the interview<\/a>, said: \u201cWithdrawals are part of professional sport, especially in one as physically demanding as tennis. In this case, both Jannik and Carlos had deep runs to the finals of both Roland Garros and Wimbledon\u2014an incredible achievement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith only a two-week turnaround between Wimbledon and Toronto this year, the schedule was particularly tight.<\/p>\n

\"AndreaPhoto by Nicol\u00f2 Campo\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I feel for the tournament. It was unfortunate but it\u2019s not the first time, and it won\u2019t be the last time a Masters 1000 event faces withdrawals. That\u2019s the reality of our sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general though, when you step back and look at the data across recent years, player participation at the Masters 1000 level remains very strong. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to assess the impact of reforms over time, using the full picture\u2014attendance, viewership, player participation, compensation, and commercial performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how we make informed, long-term decisions that serve the sport as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

An extremely quick turnaround for Jannik Sinner<\/p>\n

After Jannik Sinner contests the Cincinnati Open final against Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> on Monday evening, he will then need to make an extremely quick trip to New York to compete in the US Open Mixed Doubles tournament.<\/p>\n

Sinner<\/a>, who is partnered with Katerina Siniakova, is expected to play in the tournament, which will run from Tuesday to Wednesday.<\/p>\n

For any athlete, this turnaround is extremely quick. Both Sinner and Iga Swiatek are playing in their respective Cincinnati Open finals, and both are potentially being expected to play in New York the following day.<\/p>\n

\"JannikPhoto by Jason Heidrich\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the mixed doubles tournament is an exhibition event with no bearing on rankings. Therefore, both Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek<\/a> have the autonomy to withdraw from the tournament if they see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ATP Tour has come under much scrutiny recently after a wave of criticism regarding their scheduling. Recently,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[47850,11933,49,48,17581,619,615,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-78875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andrea-gaudenzi","9":"tag-atp-tennis-players","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-canadian-open","13":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","14":"tag-jannik-sinner","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78875","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=78875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}