Murray blames calendar for pullouts
31 Oct 2012 6:13 AM IST
Andy Murray predicted scheduling trouble for future late-season ATP events once the World Tour Finals leave London after 2013, with the new compacted annual playing calendar likely to force some hard choices among players.
The fourth-ranked Scot spoke before his second-round start at the Paris Masters a week after leaving Basel organisers high and dry by withdrawing with a back niggle from that event.
Now Paris Bercy and tournament director Guy Forget is paying the price as well with the injury absence of world number one icon Roger Federer. With the race for the final two spots in the year-end event going down to the wire in Paris before Monday’s start of the eight-man wrapup, injury retirements figure in the equation as well.
Murray said that with the London season-ender starting next Monday without a gap between the end of Paris players are unlikely to be willing to risk playing three weeks in succession.
‘With the way the schedule is just now, I think when the Tour Finals moves from London to a different continent I think there are big issues potentially with that.’
The World ATP finals are to stay in London at least until 2013 for now.
The fourth-ranked Scot spoke before his second-round start at the Paris Masters a week after leaving Basel organisers high and dry by withdrawing with a back niggle from that event.
Now Paris Bercy and tournament director Guy Forget is paying the price as well with the injury absence of world number one icon Roger Federer. With the race for the final two spots in the year-end event going down to the wire in Paris before Monday’s start of the eight-man wrapup, injury retirements figure in the equation as well.
Murray said that with the London season-ender starting next Monday without a gap between the end of Paris players are unlikely to be willing to risk playing three weeks in succession.
‘With the way the schedule is just now, I think when the Tour Finals moves from London to a different continent I think there are big issues potentially with that.’
The World ATP finals are to stay in London at least until 2013 for now.
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