Murray blames calendar for pullouts
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October 31, 2012, Wednesday
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ANDY Murray predicted scheduling trouble for future late-season ATP events once the World Tour Finals leave London after 2013, with the new compacted annual calendar likely to force some hard choices among players.
"With the way the schedule is just now, I think when the Tour Finals moves from London to a different continent I think there are big issues potentially with that," said Murray in Paris.
"Guys (who could qualify seven, eight or nine) are not going to fly all the way to a different continent if there is a chance you're not going to get in (the year-end event), not find out until Sunday probably and potentially have to play on Tuesday."
The finals are to stay in London at least until 2013 but the venue thereafter is subject to big-money negotiations.
The fourth-ranked Scot spoke before his second-round start at the Paris Masters, a week after leaving organizers in Basel, Switzerland, high and dry by withdrawing with a back injury from that event.
Now Paris Bercy and tournament director Guy Forget is paying the price as well with the injury absence of world No. 1 Roger Federer, which leaves Novak Djokovic on course to top the year-end rankings for the second straight year.
"With the way the schedule is just now, I think when the Tour Finals moves from London to a different continent I think there are big issues potentially with that," said Murray in Paris.
"Guys (who could qualify seven, eight or nine) are not going to fly all the way to a different continent if there is a chance you're not going to get in (the year-end event), not find out until Sunday probably and potentially have to play on Tuesday."
The finals are to stay in London at least until 2013 but the venue thereafter is subject to big-money negotiations.
The fourth-ranked Scot spoke before his second-round start at the Paris Masters, a week after leaving organizers in Basel, Switzerland, high and dry by withdrawing with a back injury from that event.
Now Paris Bercy and tournament director Guy Forget is paying the price as well with the injury absence of world No. 1 Roger Federer, which leaves Novak Djokovic on course to top the year-end rankings for the second straight year.
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