Yeah, I mean, it's 11 months and it's nonstop, and the year-end championship comes along in
November, and these guys, that's such a big event and such a prestige to try and finish
world number one.
We saw a world number one race right till the very end last year between Sinner and Alcaraz,
so they were both trying to vie for that position at the end and, you know, a lot of
incentive there to try and get to that top spot at the end of the season.
But for me, what's happened is it's the way that the courts are playing and the way that
the balls are playing now.
It's not as friendly to big serving, it's not as friendly to points being quick anymore
because the courts have slowed down, the conditions have slowed down.
A lot more longer, more physical rallies, and that's more physically demanding on the body.
I think it's even more difficult to stay healthy now than it was, say, 20 or 30 years
ago when the courts were more friendly to service winners and aces, and the courts being
a little bit more friendly for those shorter points.
So nowadays, I think that 11 months, the physicality, the demands I mean, we love
seeing these epic matches, we love seeing these epic rallies, but the
body pays for that price.
It's very difficult to change the calendar because so many of the tournaments are
individually owned, and you have all the sponsorship around that, and it's, it's their
own entity even though they're part of the tour.
I just think, you know, how are we going to speed things up?
I think Ryan's made a very good point.
You know, back in the day, we did have a, a more definition from all of the, the surfaces
and, you know, you had quicker indoors.
You know, the indoors season was geared towards those big servers and the serve
volleyers and, but it gave those guys a chance to shine at that period of time.
The clay courts used to be way slower, different brand of tennis out on the clay with
clay court specialists, and then grass was a little bit slicker and quicker actually.
I think that got slowed down over a period of time.
And hard courts could be however those courts were laid.
But it does feel, and I remember Federer saying this, that the surfaces were all coming
together a lot more, and, there wasn't- Yeah so much definition.
And I think a lot of the players would like to see a little bit of the courts quickened up