Daniil Medvedev is one of the many who have sided with the faction that would like to play a smaller number of tournaments. In an interview with Tennishead, the Russian tennis player - currently in Turin for the ATP Finals - explained his idea of reducing the weeks of play and how it would affect the current calendar.
"If you ask me, I would make a calendar that is impossible with all the licenses that currently exist for tournaments. But somehow we have to make the calendar shorter, the four Slams are there and obviously they will stay there. I would then do another 6 major tournaments, very big top events that we should try to make almost as important as the Slams by putting them well on the calendar during the season," he said.
Medvedev's idea includes creating more space for example for the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, the exhibition circuit created by Patrick Mouratoglou, with a rules format that is decidedly very different from that of regular tournament tennis. The Russian stressed that he would make more room in the tennis season for UTS events.
"Why is UTS so limited at the moment? I would love to play it but I can't, there was one before the US Open, I can't because I'm preparing for a Slam. There was one after the Australian Open, I couldn't, I played the final, I was exhausted. I would see more space for events like UTS or others with a different scoring system. I think this could be fun to involve people more. This would probably make our sport bigger."
