Vasek Pospisil is one of the players most involved in the improvement of tennis and has no qualms about openly criticizing the ATP. Co-founder of the PTPA along with Djokovic, the Canadian made a tremendous crack in the 2023 Davis Cup Finals, launching serious accusations against the highest entity of men’s tennis.
Tennis players are beginning to show their fatigue with the management of the ATP in many key aspects of the game and Vasek Pospisil He demonstrated it again. While it is true that the Canadian is a regular when it comes to demanding improvements on the circuit and, above all, asking that tennis players be much more involved in decision-making, the Canadian has gone one step further when being questioned at a press conference for the 2023 Davis Cup Finals about the recurring problems that are occurring with ball changes this year and the inexorable trend for them to be increasingly heavier, which has translated into an increase in injuries in the tennis players. Vasek was dispatched with pleasure, committed to ensuring that the PTPA Help change all this that you bitterly denounce.
“It has been a very difficult year for me, having to deal with injuries and one of them was a rupture of a tendon in my right elbow, which occurred after spending several days with the heaviest balls in history. I have not been able to compete for more than five weeks because I was forced to continually take breaks to prevent the problem from returning. Here I have played with a lot of pain and I have done it because there were no alternatives,” he began by pointing out before elaborating. “I played several Challenger tournaments in France and suffered the breakage I was talking about. In those tournaments, we played with a ball that was like a stone, all the tennis players complained, it was incredible. With each hit you felt pain in the wrist, elbow and shoulder. Unfortunately, I played well and played a lot of games in those two weeks, which condemned my body for the rest of the year,” he said.
– Pospisil believes that tennis has a lot of potential, but it is being left behind due to the incompetence of those who run it
It was very difficult to recover from these problems for Pospisil, who reaffirms what many other tennis players have said and highlights that the epidemic of joint injuries in the dominant arm that has occurred this year is not a coincidence. “The ATP They changed the balls a long time ago because they wanted there to be more exchange, they wanted to slow down the game, but that is counterproductive. I don’t think anyone wants to see 60-shot exchanges either, they want variety. But the most serious thing is the injuries that this decision has caused. I would say that 50% of the circuit have wrist, elbow or shoulder problems. Many tennis players don’t say it, but in the locker room they admit that their wrist hurts a lot when they compete,” he declares.
“Tennis is a big business in which players have enormous importance, but we are not given any right to give our opinion on vital issues. We should be treated as partners, but the reality is that we are not taken into account at all, neither not even for aspects that put our health at risk. Then there is also the issue of the terrible scheduling in many tournaments, which has also affected me. I don’t know, luckily lately more and more tennis players are making their complaints public, but still not They take us into account. Tennis has a lot of potential, but it is being left behind because of the terrible organizational quality of those who run it, not because of the product itself,” says an indignant Vasek Pospisil.
2023-11-22 17:04:55
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