Taylor Fritz didn’t join Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner in skipping the Canadian Open for one simple reason. It is a Masters 1000 event. Had that not been the case, things, perhaps, could have been much different. After all, Fritz has been quite blunt about the downside of seven out of nine Masters 1000 events adding about a week each to what is already a gruelling schedule. “I mean, probably pretty much all the players for a long time have been asking for the season to be shorter, but all we are doing is just lengthening it, adding more stuff, we’re adding more, like, longer tournaments,” he said in Washington last month. And now, as the Cincinnati Open reaches its business end, Sinner, too, has shared his thoughts on the revamped schedule, and it doesn’t sound like he is a fan.
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