In the world of professional tennis, there are more and more requests to shorten the calendar, complaints that there are too many matches that take their toll in the form of injuries, exhaustion of players in the ATP and WTA tours.
Is it really like that now!? The great American tennis player, Taylor Fritz, believes that before it was incomparably more difficult.
"Words cannot describe how incredible it is to play 97 matches in a year like Roger did in 2006. Especially in those seasons when the Masters final was played in a five-set format," Fritz wrote on the X Network.
The American had the best year in his career, and after 53 wins and 23 losses, he finished the season in fourth place in the ATP rating. He played in the finals of the US Open and the ATP finals and was defeated by Janik Siner both times.
Fritz also won the Olympic bronze, but also two ATP trophies from the five finals played. The reason for his announcement was a post published on "Tennis TV", in which he compared the year 2024 of Janik Siner with the most successful seasons of Roger Federer (2006), Rafael Nadal (2010) and Novak Djokovic (2015).
For example, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic each won three Grand Slams in those seasons, Siner won two in 2024.
The balance of wins and losses for the year is as follows: Federer - 92:5, Nadal - 71:10, Djokovic - 82:6, Sinner - 73:6.
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