"Look, I mean, I've been on tour now for 10 years. The conversation has always been how can we make the season shorter. By making the season shorter is not only because we want to play tennis. No, we love to play tennis."
"It's about how can we have time to prepare our bodies for the physicality that tennis is and how do we have time to heal our body. If we have an 11-month season, like we have now, for example, the Davis Cup Final, I talked to Alex de Minaur about it. He played the Davis Cup Final the 29th of November, and his first ATP Cup match was the 29th of December, which is exactly one month."
"It's just simply not enough time. It's not enough time to rest your body. It's also not enough time to physically prepare your body. Physical preparation is not how much you practice on a tennis court, how much you play tennis, no."
"It's how much work you put in the gym, how much work you put in on the track, how much work you put in outside the tennis court. That you cannot do during the season. It only gives us a period of time of resting and preparing our body of four weeks, which no other sport has."
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