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A few weeks ago a emerged a rumor about the possibility of creating a parallel Tour to the current ATP Tour, including the four Slams and all the ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. This news is just a rumor, but it has already sparked comments from some tennis players.
The idea would be to establish a Premium Tour in which to combine the four Slams and all the ATP/WTA 1000 tournaments. As reported by Tennishead, Taylor Fritz has expressed his opinion on this possibility of change. And the American tennis player talked about this possibility to the Sydney Morning Herald, expressing his positive opinion about it.”
Fritz is excited about an eventual Premier Tour
“It’s a great idea and I think we should have separate Tours.
If you’re on the main Tour, the big one, you should be able to play all the big events, and they should all be slightly bigger events to get all the top 100 in, and I think honestly we should only play those. You can have 14 highlight events and this makes tennis easy to follow for fans, because you only have to pay attention to those tournaments.
There are no people who get tons of points between one event and another, like in the ATP…
