The rumors about this supposed Super Circuit have not stopped since they came to light. Saudi Arabia continues to make important investments in the world of tennis, making its interest in the sport of racquet clear and making the shadow of the Super Circuit bigger.
Roddick offers his blunt opinion on this possibility: “If suddenly the Grand Slams have to do with all this, I don’t think the players will give up playing in tournaments, with something they dreamed of since they were 6 years old,” he explains. Andy on his podcast Served with Andy Roddick. “It would be very difficult for me not to do it. Personally, I would have to play the Grand Slams, I would play the US Open. I turned down an opportunity to play an exhibition for next April. I said no because I didn’t want to be followed up on how much I was going to be paid. I didn’t even want to know, so I said no. I hate being hypocritical and I had already taken a stand before.
I don’t have to play Grand Slams anymore, I did my job in tennis. If somehow that super circuit causes them to absorb the four Grand Slams, they will have it all. The main values of the ATP are its infrastructure, its history, the classification system and its relationship with the players. “At the moment they have the tournaments, create their own ranking and the Grand Slams are part of this new investment, I don’t think they will be competing circuits, the ATP circuit would be finished.”
Conditions and an unlikely change
“The devil is in the details. Homosexuality is illegal, but we have openly homosexual tennis players. (Daria) Kasatkina said it openly last year. If he puts himself in there, are we telling him to take a week off from his sexuality? How do we protect our own players, whose life choices are considered criminal when they enter this place? How do we protect those mechanisms? Can what is said now be trusted when it is put into practice?
What I wouldn’t like to see is that, if the WTA Finals are held there, certain concessions would be made. When they left China, they have done it quickly and quickly in the last two seasons. Even so, if in five years we see that the situation is going well and that there are changes, we will have to eat our words. We have to be open-minded to reaching a different result than what we think is going to happen,” explains Andy, who admits that he would not go because now it has no consequences in his life.
2024-02-09 15:48:42
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