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Daria Kasatkina has joined the list of players who believe the constant ball changes on the Tour are causing injuries to players. Since the start of the Asian swing, the criticism of the constant ball changes in tournaments massively increased, with some players claiming that the increasing number of injuries in tennis can be linked to the balls.
In the latest vlog uploaded on her ‘Zabiiako & Kasatkina’ YouTube channel, Kasatkina addressed the ball changes issue after her Tokyo quarterfinal exit. As Kasatkina was preparing to kick off her Beijing campaign, she wondered what type of balls would be used at the China Open.
“I remind you, there are different courts, I’ll open a secret, when they write that surface is hard, it’s not always the same surface, it’s like the same, but it can be faster or slower depending on who they bought it from, etc.
So, each tournament can have a different surface, for example, now in Tokyo was very fast. How it will be in Beijing now, I already don’t remember, will see, maybe changed something. Of course, different balls, in this series of tournaments, out of the four tournaments that I will play, four…
