Just two weeks after Wimbledon’s curtain fell, the Canadian Open was already limping before its first serve with three titans, Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and Novak Djokovic, gone from the draw. The ATP calendar now stretches almost eleven relentless months, with barely a breath between the end of 2024 and the grind of 2025. The toll is showing, and the voices are no longer silent. “To be honest, I am complaining about the length of the two-week tournaments, but at the same time, I don’t dislike playing a match and having a day off and playing a match,” Taylor Fritz echoed the sentiment on the 12-day Masters stretch. And Alcaraz once more sounded the alarm, forecasting the brutal truth of professional tennis.

Carlos Alcaraz wasted no time stamping his authority on Tuesday at the

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