As the 2025 tennis season winds down, the length of the tour’s calendar is once against coming under fire from the top.
World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz was asked for his thoughts on the “ideal number” of matches a top player should play in one season ahead of his opening match at the Rolex Paris Masters, the final ATP Masters 1000 event of the season. While Alcaraz wouldn’t commit to a number, he wound up singing a familiar refrain about the commitments demanded of players throughout the year.
“I can’t answer with [an] exact number. But obviously they have to do something with the calendar,” he said ahead of his 16th tournament this year. “The amount of tournaments that we have to play I think is too high. We don’t have such, you know, good period of time that we can practice, we can rest.
“Even during the season, I think it’s week after week after week and we don’t have the chance to have a week just to prepare pretty well the tournaments or what we have ahead in the season.”
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