‘They are very slow, it is very difficult to make a winner’

Of the 64 first-round games in Roland Garros 2023, 21 of them went to a fifth set, in what was a record in the Open Era. Many of them, reaching four long hours and even five. This is not something that has gone unnoticed by tennis players and Novak Djokovic He has raised his voice at a press conference to comment on this. “I have spoken with many players in the locker room and we all think that the balls this year are slower than in previous years. This makes it very difficult to make a winner. You have to work more on each point, it extends the duration of the matches and you requires more energy”