Elena Rybakina (No. 4 in the WTA ranking) he beat him for the first time in his career to his compatriot Yulia Putintseva (50th) after a epic comeback at the Madrid Open. It was 4-6, 7-6 (4) and 7-5 for a player who considers that the increase in two-week tournaments “does not help.”
“It exhausts the protagonists physically and mentally so there is a lot to improve on the circuit. Before, two-week tournaments in Indian Wells or Miami were fine, but doing Madrid and Rome also long, and then you have the French Open,” seems more questionable.
“With the new rules we have a lot of mandatory and you can’t choose what you want to play. It’s fair that people choose what they want to play or not. If the tour is good for everyone, then people want to play. But now we are in the opposite direction because everyone is chasing the ranking and so on,” he commented the player with the most titles and victories this season.
“If it was open to everyone, then it would be fair. If you want to play, you play. If you don’t want to play, you don’t play. So I think there is a lot to improve on the circuit, and I already said it last year. Honestly, I don’t have much energy to fight and express my opinion, because it’s not that easy to change something. I feel like I’m spending energy trying to do something different. So I’m just following the rules and trying to do the best of what I have,” he argued.
