Two weeks before the tournament began, she first drew attention to the rules regarding the number of tournaments that players are required to enter, relevant in particular due to the added schedule pressure presented by the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.
“I think players are aware that this is crazy what’s going on,” Swiatek said after winning her first round in Flushing Meadows. “The schedule is really tough. I know that, I mean, I spoke about it in Cincinnati, for example, and there are people saying that, ‘Oh, I don’t have to play so many tournaments, but…the fact is that we have so many mandatory tournaments that we literally need to show up and we don’t have time to work on stuff or live peacefully, because from one tournament we’re going straight to another.
“We don’t even have time until the end of the year, because literally the first tournament starts on 29th of December,” she added. “So yeah, the season is, for sure, too long.”
