Gasquet on revised 2020 calendar including US Open: "It is simply grotesque"

Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 13:30

Richard Gasquet has admitted that he is yet to finalise his plans for when the tour returns but that he does intend to play in the US Open despite criticising the scheduling of tournaments.

The new revised ATP Calendar was released recently and it sees a restart in August in the USA before heading over to Europe for the clay court swing in what is a packed schedule; for Gasquet, he isn't a fan mainly due to injuries.

“The schedule they have given us is practically crazy. A lot of important tournaments in a short time. It is simply grotesque; but I understand that everyone wants to save their tournaments. They need the dispute of their tournaments to obtain economic benefits,” Gasquet told Le Parisien.

“Now it is the players who have to decide on which tournaments to play and which ones to not; but the best players on the circuit who will play in the final rounds and therefore have a lot of games, are going to have to make a schedule according to their physical condition in order to avoid injuries that could make them miss out what’s left of the season.”

“If there are no problems, my intention is to play the US Open; but if the tournament is held tomorrow I confirm that I would not go. There are many unknowns about the tournament dispute and currently the United States is the country with the most infections in the world,” added Gasquet.

“It is better for tournaments to be held under these conditions than not; but obviously losing a lot of emotion playing games behind closed doors. It is important that tennis is restarted like other sports and with televisions everything is easier to be able to watch all the games.

In Germany, the Bundesliga has never had as much television audience as it does right now. People need sport and I’m sure tennis would gain much more television viewing.” He later added.

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