{"id":85167,"date":"2025-07-23T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85167\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:55:09","slug":"andy-roddick-completely-disagrees-with-the-change-nick-kyrgios-has-called-for-grand-slam-tournaments-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85167\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick completely disagrees with the change Nick Kyrgios has called for Grand Slam tournaments to make"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ruthless tennis schedule has rapidly moved on from Wimbledon, with many ATP and WTA stars now taking on the Washington Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Action at the Washington Open<\/a> is now underway, where Venus Williams has attracted plenty of attention with her return to tennis.<\/p>\n

But also on the horizon is the Canadian Open, with the ATP Tour<\/a> heading to Toronto and the WTA Tour<\/a> heading to Montreal.<\/p>\n

The ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 tournaments start later this month, with the US Open following shortly afterwards in the calendar.<\/p>\n

The tennis schedule certainly needs analysing<\/a> amid this current run, highlighted by the withdrawal of many star names from the upcoming events.<\/p>\n

\"VenusPhoto by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesAndy Roddick disagrees with Nick Kyrgios\u2019 proposed Grand Slam change<\/p>\n

Grand Slams themselves have been a major focus of the debate, with Nick Kyrgios wanting best-of-five sets from the quarterfinals onwards<\/a> for both men and women.<\/p>\n

But sharing his verdict on such a change midway through an event, former world number one Andy Roddick<\/a> said on his Served podcast: \u201cI don\u2019t like starting a tournament one way and then changing the entire dynamic of the tournament at a panic.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> ATP Mubadala Citi DC Open 2025 preview: who is playing when, prize money and full schedule<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are things that women go through and most likely a lot of them are going through at some point over the course of a two week event that men don\u2019t have to go through. So very simply, that gets left out of every argument and rolling the dice on when that happens is insane.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou throw in best of five and there is some contrast overlap with what a woman is going through at that time. I don\u2019t like it at all. I don\u2019t like starting a tournament in one format and finishing it in one format.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not like it in the Masters 1000 on the men\u2019s side, when you get to the final and they go \u2018I know you have had a long week, but let\u2019s play seven hours before we go to a Grand Slam\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like starting a tournament one way and finishing it in another, that does not define the best players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it completely changes the dynamic of what has already been accomplished in that Slam up until that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What are the ATP and WTA schedules up to the US Open?<\/p>\n

While there are plenty of high-profile players in action in the build-up to the US Open, withdrawals have unfortunately been a common theme.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka and Paula Badosa are out of the Canadian Open<\/a>, as are Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Jack Draper and Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Nick Kyrgios sends clear message to his critics after playing doubles with Gael Monfils in Washington DC<\/a><\/p>\n\nWTA Tour<\/strong><\/td>\nDates<\/strong><\/td>\n\nDates<\/strong><\/td>\nATP Tour<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWashington DC<\/td>\n21-27 July<\/td>\n\n20-26 July<\/td>\nKitzbuhel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPrague<\/td>\n21-26 July<\/td>\n\n20-26 July<\/td>\nUmag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMontreal<\/td>\n27 July \u2013 7 August<\/td>\n\n21-27 July<\/td>\nWashington DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCincinnati<\/td>\n7-18 August<\/td>\n\n27 July \u2013 7 August<\/td>\nToronto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCleveland<\/td>\n17-23 August<\/td>\n\n7-18 August<\/td>\nCincinnati<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMonterrey<\/td>\n18-23 August<\/td>\n\n17-23 August<\/td>\nWinston-Salem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUS Open<\/td>\n24 Aug \u2013 7 September<\/td>\n\n24 Aug \u2013 7 September<\/td>\nUS Open<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

It\u2019s a remarkable list on both sides, with players either fatigued or injured after a very busy and demanding season so far.<\/p>\n

And there is still a lot of tennis to be played before the year is out, with the small matter of the US Open beginning in New York next month.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ruthless tennis schedule has rapidly moved on from Wimbledon, with many ATP and WTA stars now taking…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1710,1479,6532,62,1464,67,132,68,2212],"class_list":{"0":"post-85167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-roddick","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-nick-kyrgios","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114901006699116055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85167","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=85167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}