"No one's got a solution": Alex de Minaur demands tennis schedule to be shorter, warns possibility of players 'burn out'

Australia’s Alex de Minaur has become the latest big-name player to demand the tennis season to be shorter. There has been a lot of discussions regarding the length of the tennis season in the recent past with some big-name players, including the likes of Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek.

That criticism was directly pointed towards the length of the WTA and ATP 1000 events, which are now being played over the course of two weeks. Most recently, Australia’s Jordan Thompson also complained about the demanding schedule. Now, another Australian player has joined the ranks in complaining about the schedule.

Australia’s De Minaur, who has been recently knocked out of the ongoing French Open after losing to Alexander Bublik in the second round in a five-set thriller with a score of 2-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, talked to the media after the match, stated that there is an urgent need to curb the size. The current world number nine, who, for the eighth time in nine appearance failed to get past the second round at the Roland Garros, was of the opinion that if the season has not been shortened, it will only mean that players career will become shorter as sooner or later, the athletes will start to ‘burn out mentally’.

"No one's got a solution,” he said. "But the solution is simple: You shorten the schedule, right? What's not normal is that for the last three, four years I've had two days off after the Davis Cup and I've gone straight into preseason, straight into the new season again. Once you start, you don't finish until Nov. 24. So it's never ending. The way it's structured ... I had to deal with that. I'm still dealing with that right now. The solution is you shorten [the tour], because what's going to happen is players' careers are going to get shorter and shorter because they're just going to burn out mentally. There's just too much tennis."