{"id":115551,"date":"2025-08-03T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115551\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:15:14","slug":"taylor-fritz-outlines-the-change-he-wants-to-happen-to-two-week-masters-1000-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115551\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz outlines the change he wants to happen to two week Masters 1000 events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open Masters 1000 tournaments will be contested over two weeks for the first time in 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the trend of Masters 1000 events expanding to 96-player draws, the Canadian Open<\/a> made the switch this year.<\/p>\n

The move has been controversial, as several players and pundits have shared their disdain over the longer format in recent years.<\/p>\n

World number three Alexander Zverev claimed nobody \u2018loves\u2019 the two-week Masters 1000 events<\/a> during a recent podcast appearance, and he isn\u2019t the only player to have complained.<\/p>\n

\"AlexanderPhoto by Mert Alper Dervis\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all doom and gloom, as the second seed in Toronto, Taylor Fritz<\/a>, believes there are some positives associated with the two-week format.<\/p>\n

However, he has suggested a tweak to the schedule that he would be \u2018way in favor\u2019 of making.<\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz wants one-week Masters 1000 events and a longer off-season<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media after his third-round win over home-favorite Gabriel Diallo, Fritz shared his thoughts on the two-week Masters 1000 events.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are pros and cons to it. I think the thing I can say that\u2019s the most in support of it on my side, I do like the format of play a day, day off, play a day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we do at Slams, obviously at the Slams we\u2019re playing three out of five, but I do think that I don\u2019t mind that format.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you get into it, playing six matches in a row potentially, if you go all the way, six matches every day, that\u2019s a lot. Then straight off to the next tournament to do the same thing all over again, that\u2019s pretty tough to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at the same time, it adds extra weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\nTournament<\/strong><\/td>\nSurface<\/strong><\/td>\nDates<\/strong><\/td>\nDraw<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndian Wells<\/td>\nHard<\/td>\nMarch 5 \u2013 16 (2 week)<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMiami Open<\/td>\nHard<\/td>\nMarch 19 \u2013 30 (2 weeks)<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMonte-Carlo Masters<\/td>\nClay<\/td>\nApril 6 \u2013 13 (1 week)<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMadrid Open<\/td>\nClay<\/td>\nApril 23 \u2013 May 4 (2 weeks)<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nItalian Open<\/td>\nClay<\/td>\nMay 7 \u2013 18 (2 weeks)<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCanadian Open<\/td>\nHard<\/td>\nJuly 27 \u2013 August 7 (2 weeks)<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCincinnati Open<\/td>\nHard<\/td>\nAugust 7 \u2013 18 (2 weeks)<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nShanghai Masters<\/td>\nHard<\/td>\nOctober 1 \u2013 12 (2 weeks)<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nParis Masters<\/td>\nHard (indoor)<\/td>\nOctober 27 \u2013 November 2 (1 week)<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2025 Masters 1000 schedule<\/p>\n

Commenting on a potential switch back to the seven-day format, Fritz shared his concerns over what the ATP Tour<\/a> may do.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, the way I see it, if we\u2019re going to have this stretch of three weeks, if we\u2019re going to go back to how it used to be, one week each, if it\u2019s going to mean we\u2019re going to add another tournament, then I would be against it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"TaylorPhoto by Mathew Tsang\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if it\u2019s going to mean that we make these Masters 1000s one week and we can lengthen the off-season, to give those extra weeks back at the end of the season, and give us a six\/seven week off-season rather than a four week off-season, that would be massive and I would be way in favor of doing the one week events.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if they were just going to add another event in there, I\u2019d say this format is probably better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fritz, like many other players on tour, endured a quick turnaround from his 2024 season to his 2025 season, which arguably hurt him during the first few months of the year.<\/p>\n

How long was Taylor Fritz\u2019s \u2018off-season\u2019?<\/p>\n

Fritz finished up his 2024 campaign at the Davis Cup Finals<\/a>, when Team USA were beaten by Australia on Thursday, November 21.<\/p>\n

The American star was back in action representing his country just 38 days later at the 2025 United Cup<\/a> on Sunday, December 29.<\/p>\n

Initially, his return to action was successful, as Fritz and Team USA won the United Cup<\/a>, although his ATP Tour form wasn\u2019t all that impressive during the first half of the year.<\/p>\n

\"CocoPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Before finding his form on the grass a few months ago, Fritz suffered several early exits at tournaments he\u2019d enjoyed success at in the past.<\/p>\n\nTournament<\/strong><\/td>\nRound lost in<\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent<\/strong><\/td>\nMatch wins<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAustralian Open<\/td>\n3R<\/td>\nGael Monfils<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDallas Open<\/td>\n2R<\/td>\nDenis Shapovalov<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDelray Beach Open<\/td>\nQF<\/td>\nAlejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIndian Wells<\/td>\n4R<\/td>\nJack Draper<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMiami Open<\/td>\nSF<\/td>\nJakub Mensik<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMadrid Open<\/td>\n4R<\/td>\nCasper Ruud<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nItalian Open<\/td>\n2R<\/td>\nMarcos Giron<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nGeneva Open<\/td>\nQF<\/td>\nHubert Hurkacz<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFrench Open<\/td>\n1R<\/td>\nDaniel Altmaier<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Taylor Fritz\u2019s 2025 ATP Tour results before the grass-court season<\/p>\n

Only Fritz will know how much the short off-season affected him, but it certainly wouldn\u2019t have helped.<\/p>\n

Now back playing some of his best tennis, Fritz will prepare for his fourth-round match at the Canadian Open against Jiri Lehecka on Sunday, August 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open Masters 1000 tournaments will be contested over two weeks for the first…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,62,12335,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-115551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-taylor-fritz","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114964786301092401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}