"No. I mean, so far not. Ask me again in about seven, eight years' time. Then I'll probably answer differently. But we do have the longest season in sports. I mean, I have said it before. It's unnecessarily long. We have unnecessarily, you know, we have unnecessary amount of tournaments."
"I do believe that we don't need to play now from the 27th of December, when the United Cup starts, till the 19th or 20th of November where the World Tour Finals end, and plus if you play Davis Cup afterwards, it's even longer."
"So there is no time to rest, but more importantly, the rest, there is no time to prepare your body. There is no time to build muscle. There is no time to just say I'm not going to touch my tennis racquet for a month and I'm only going to physically prepare for a long and very difficult season."
"We don't have that time. We come back from holidays, and we start with tennis practice straightaway, because we just, in two or three weeks' time, we have to play in Australia. So that just doesn't exist."
"It exists in other sports, and that's why I think injury prevention and longevity is maybe a bit better in the other sports, except if you're playing a schedule like Roger played in last few years of his career and Novak is doing right now where they're taking longer periods of time off."
"But if you're an ambitious young person still who feels like hasn't achieved the things that they want to achieve yet in their career, that's not an option."
"You know, the tour goes on without you. That's not really an option. So I do feel like we need to do something about it. I do think that -- I mean, I'm on the player council, so I do think the ATP is working towards that. It's not an easy solution, but it's definitely a solution that needs to be made."
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