That came from something Alcaraz said after a match he played at the Laver Cup event last September, according to a transcript of his news conference there.
“A lot of players (want) to play more—or even more. A lot of players feel like, OK, it is a good calendar. And a lot of players (say) that it’s really tight and a lot of tournaments during the whole year,” he said in Berlin. “I’m the kind of player who (thinks) there is a lot of tournaments during the year, mandatory tournaments, and probably during the next few years, gonna be even more tournaments, more mandatory tournaments. So, I mean, probably they are going to kill us in some way.”
The transcript indicates he was smiling at the end of that passage.
The PTPA suit levels a series of criticisms against the governing bodies in tennis, such as limiting the prize money each tournament can offer, preventing competition from rival tours or events, a rankings system that restricts which events athletes are allowed to enter, and a “heavy-handed approach” by the International Tennis Integrity Agency that the lawsuit termed “arbitrary and selective.”
