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Radwanska wants season reduced but may play six straight weeks

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tennis.com - Radwanska wants season reduced but may play six straight weeks

Agnieszka Radwanska, who has played 21 tournaments this year, says that the WTA season is too long. The season began on January 1 and will end on November 1.

"I think nine months season will be good. I think a lot of people agree with me," Radwanska said. "Everybody wants that. But it's just the way it is."

Currently ranked No. 8, the 26-year-old is still trying to qualify for the eight-player WTA Finals in Singapore and has actually added tournaments to her schedule to help do so.

After falling in the third round of the U.S. Open, Radwanska won Tokyo and then lost to eventual champion Venus Williams in the opening round in Wuhan. She's the fourth seed in Beijing this week. Radwanska will then play Tianjin, and she has accepted a wild card into Moscow.

If Radwanska qualifies for Singapore, she could end up playing six weeks in a row.

"Is a very busy schedule," Radwanska said. "But I'm just doing everything to qualify to Singapore. There is no choice. I need to try every week."

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With her scheduling of course she wants a 9 month season :lol:
 
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What she's saying and what she's doing are completely inconsistent.

There's no way the season should be shorter. Why have no women's tennis for 3 months of the year? It's a ridiculous notion, and goes against all commercial and marketing sense. Make it longer, and spread out the post-USO schedule more.
 
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she's queenvulture for a reason, feasting on the dead

Asian Swing should start at start of October
this week should have been Tokyo
 
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tennis.com - Radwanska wants season reduced but may play six straight weeks

Agnieszka Radwanska, who has played 21 tournaments this year, says that the WTA season is too long. The season began on January 1 and will end on November 1.

"I think nine months season will be good. I think a lot of people agree with me," Radwanska said. "Everybody wants that. But it's just the way it is."
Sure, everyone who has already made lots of money wants that but I bet all the players lower in the rankings would disagree. Keep trolling Aga.
 
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I wonder if the PGA Tour's model is something tennis should look into. The regular season finishes in the fall, but they begin the next year's season in the late fall/winter of the previous year, with the tournaments between oct-jan being worth a little less in their year end points list...
 
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:facepalm:

The length of players holiday isn't why players are getting burned out.

3 months holiday and i can see many players coming back more unfit that when they ended the season.
Imagine Vika ?
 
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#21 ·
So she basically wants the year to end with UO ? For someone who made a career out of vulturing the events that top players fail to show up in this part of the season , this pusher does have a lot of nerve.
 
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Idiotic trolling of a typical Aga hater. So when Venus (2015), Serena (2013), Sharapova (2014), Azarenka (2012), or Kvitova (2013, 2014) win a tournament during the Asian Swing, when Kvitova (2014), Sharapova (2013, 2012) are runner-ups, then it is a well-deserved victory and glory! But when Radwańska wins these events, then it is extreme vulturing and devouring of cadavers :D

Aga simply likes Tokyo and Beijing courts, likes the characteristics of their surfaces and fairness of their crowds. The other aspect is that she detests the USO (not the USO Series!), the picnic, noisy atmosphere of the tournament, location of the courts etc. That's why she's never had great results there (except for a 3rd Rd win against Sharapova when she was 18 yo). So no wonder that after USO she's usually in combating mood, craving for revenge, and - in a need of points ;)
 
#30 ·
I bet she also has many fans here. I consider myself one of them.



I agree it seems a bit hypocritical of Aga but the system is what it is and we can also admire a player who tries her best to get an elite spot. Let's not forget she had an abysmal first half of the season, now she tries to make up for it.


Wouldn't it be a much better idea to create a tournament free month somewhere inbetween the season? Or is that unfair to the lower ranked players? Maybe a month with only 280-tournies.
 
#23 ·
I really couldnt find any sensible reason to what she just said coherent to what she is doing!
Unless you are Ana with a hot BettleJuice, who I wouldnt mind training with in Maldives, jacuzzi n spas.
 
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If you made the season 9 months, you might as well end it after the US Open given the US Open ends in mid-September. This would be a terrible idea from a financial perspective though. The WTA aren't going to just scrap the Asian swing, and it's terrible for players who aren't earning millions year after year, which is still at the end of the day the majority of the tour.

Fortunately the WTA don't seem to agree with this nonsense either, and seem to be seeing sense. It's like when the ATP players wanted a shorter season and they put WTF the day after Paris. Anyone could see that was unworkable, and it was quickly changed after the players complained after it happened.

You can already see though it's going to be tough for the WTA to extend the season, as it's going to be met with resistance from players, which is why it shouldn't have been done in the first place, it started a slippery slope.
 
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It wouldn't be a problem, if Aga would have any forehand.
21 tournaments is kinda standard number of tournaments for her per season. And apart from Tokyo or grass season she's flopping more than winning, to be honest. :shrug: :shrug:
So maybe, Aga, you're tired because you're showing signs of decline, eh?

I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be butchering herself 5 weeks in a row if she wouldn't have any chances for YEC though.
 
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This. People are always throwing shit at Aga :rolleyes:
 
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#27 ·
She wants a nine month season, but instead she plays: Stanford, Toronto, Cincinnati, New Haven, US Open, Tokyo, Wuhan, Beijing after Wimbledon. She needs to get points from the big events: slams, PMs, P5s, instead of wasting her energy in Premiers. If she's not good enough to win points in the big events, don't complain about the schedule. I think the season should be 1-2 weeks longer, with more time between USO and the big Asian tournaments. This way, more players would be able to heal some injuries, have some rest and try to compete better in Asia. But it mostly depends on their schedule. They can't complain about being tired when they play almost every tournament between Stanford and Singapore, in a desperate attempt to make it there.
 
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I don't know if I agree with shorter season, but I don't think Agnieszka is inconsistent with her actions opposed to what she is saying. The season is that long (it is what it is as she said) so she competes for the best place the entire season instead of letting others compete and take her place if she didn't show.
 
#33 ·
I am not a professional tennis player so who am I to disagree with her. I care more about the players' welfare than my own entertainment as a viewer. I'd like to know what the other top players think about this.

And I disagree with people saying she is hypocritical. Getting to YEC is always one of the goals in the season, of course she has to try to achieve that goal.
 
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I am not a professional tennis player so who am I to disagree with her. I care more about the players' welfare than my own entertainment as a viewer. I'd like to know what the other top players think about this.

And I disagree with people saying she is hypocritical. Getting to YEC is always one of the goals in the season, of course she has to try to achieve that goal.
This is about far more than the top players.
 
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#35 ·
She won't qualify for YEC if the season is 9 months. There won't be tournaments that others don't play for her to vulture.
 
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Speaking of vultures, these gals are all "grab all the doe & run" type VCs (Vulture Capitalists) who don't give a tiny hoot about the lower ranked ones (for whom shortening the season amounts to stealing bread)

There is no shred of solidarity in the WTA among the top and bottom - quite different from the ATP in that respect
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#41 ·
The female tennis players are not soledaristic like the dudes

They are not only on-court vulturettes but also literally VCs (Vulture-Capitalists, i.e. "take the money and run" types - they absolutely don't give even a tiny hoot for the lower ranked players (for whom shortening the season amounts to stealing bread from their mouths)
Maybe she means last PM sooner. Other tournaments can still take place.
 
#39 ·
Makes sense. As the season stands, if she wants to make the YEC she has to keep playing. If the chance are there to gain points players are going to take them. Tennis already has one of the longest seasons in pro sports. And that would still be so with a nine-month season. The other sports where almost daily play is the norm have six-month seasons. A nine month season would be fine and we'd see less injuries and more improvement as it gives a chance to retool one's game for the next year.

As I see it. anyone who feels like a three month off-season of tennis is horrible would benefit from finding some other interests.
 
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#42 ·
Are you talking about the players or the fans? Because for the players, it's their livelihood. Trying telling someone that switching to a four-day week would be "good" for them.
 
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