By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The WTA should clear up scheduling snafus to stage the aggressive taking part in subject, says Sloane Stephens.
The Tour got here beneath harsh criticism from some gamers and followers after a scheduling debacle in Montreal final week.
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Rain wreaked havoc on the schedule forcing 2022 Wimbledon winner Elena Rybakina to complete a match at 3 a.m., an expertise she stated left her feeling “destroyed.”
Montreal runner-up Liudmila Samsonova was compelled to play each the semifinal and closing on the identical day on Sunday and confessed she was bodily depleted for the ultimate.
Stephens, who sits on the Participant Council, says the Tour and tournaments should handle the schedule higher firstly of the week to stop the prospect of gamers taking part in a number of matches on the ultimate day.
“Clearly the tour has to do a greater job with scheduling,” Stephens informed the media in Cincinnati. “We have now to discover a resolution for the late matches, there being unfair timing for individuals not taking part in on the similar time. There are only a lot of issues that should be mounted when it comes to scheduling and the way we handle that, as a result of there may be clearly all the time going to be somebody that is at a drawback, as we noticed within the Montreal closing.
“I imply, it isn’t one thing that we are able to management, however within the actuality of issues, if the scheduling was higher maybe firstly of the week it could have made a distinction in the direction of the tip of the week. Simply giving gamers the most effective alternative to carry out and do their greatest comes down loads to the tour and the scheduling.”
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