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Yeah, I mean, it's 11 months and it's nonstop,
and the year-end championship comes along in

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November, and these guys, that's such a big
event and such a prestige to try and finish

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world number one.

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We saw a world number one race right till the
very end last year between Sinner and Alcaraz,

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so they were both trying to vie for that
position at the end and, you know, a lot of

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incentive there to try and get to that
top spot at the end of the season.

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But for me, what's happened is it's the way
that the courts are playing and the way that

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the balls are playing now.

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It's not as friendly to big serving, it's
not as friendly to points being quick anymore

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because the courts have slowed down,
the conditions have slowed down.

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A lot more longer, more physical rallies, and
that's more physically demanding on the body.

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I think it's even more difficult to stay
healthy now than it was, say, 20 or 30 years

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ago when the courts were more friendly to
service winners and aces, and the courts being

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a little bit more friendly
for those shorter points.

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So nowadays, I think that 11 months, the
physicality, the demands I mean, we love

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seeing these epic matches, we love
seeing these epic rallies, but the

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body pays for that price.

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It's very difficult to change the calendar
because so many of the tournaments are

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individually owned, and you have all the
sponsorship around that, and it's, it's their

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own entity even though
they're part of the tour.

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I just think, you know, how are
we going to speed things up?

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I think Ryan's made a very good point.

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You know, back in the day, we did have a, a
more definition from all of the, the surfaces

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and, you know, you had quicker indoors.

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You know, the indoors season was geared
towards those big servers and the serve

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volleyers and, but it gave those guys a
chance to shine at that period of time.

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The clay courts used to be way slower,
different brand of tennis out on the clay with

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clay court specialists, and then grass was
a little bit slicker and quicker actually.

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I think that got slowed
down over a period of time.

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And hard courts could be
however those courts were laid.

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But it does feel, and I remember Federer
saying this, that the surfaces were all coming

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together a lot more, and, there
wasn't- Yeah so much definition.

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And I think a lot of the players would like to
see a little bit of the courts quickened up