Nadal Not Happy About Roland Garros Scheduling

Written by: Staff on 1st June 2013

French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros

Nadal Not Happy About Roland Garros Scheduling

epa03726768 Rafael Nadal of Spain in action during his third round match against Fabio Fognini of Italy at the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris, France, 01 June 2013. EPA/YOAN VALAT |

Rafael Nadal is tired of coming up short on the French Open scheduled and forced to play back-to-back matches as his side of the draw gets caught up after week 1 rain. And the seven-times champion is seething about the lack of planning which led to his match originally set for Thursday being played on Friday. For the second straight match, the king of clay dropped an opening set on the way to victory.

“Everybody knows that the schedule of yesterday was wrong, that’s the real thing,” Nadal complained. “I don’t know if the director of the tournament, supervisors, guys who take the positions, they take a bad position two days ago (when Thursday was planned).

“I cannot play third after men’s and girls when our possible opponents plays second after girls. That’s not fair. And today I was playing almost three hours on court, and my opponent was watching the TV in the locker room.

“So if you told me that’s fair, I say that’s not fair. Only thing that I can do is be positive, smile, and try to win my match and try to be ready for tomorrow.”

Nadal was particularly troubled by the excuse given to him as to why he was scheduled as he was: “They told me was because (Czech Lukas) Rosol (who beat him in 2012 Wimbledon) have to play doubles. “I’m sorry, but that’s a joke. You have one more week to play doubles if you want to play doubles.”

Editors note : We agree with Rafa ! Really poor scheduling. Not to take away from Tommy Haas win but for sure John Isner was suffering in their match today which lasted 4 hours plus. Johns match the day before against Ryan Harrison was a tough five setter 8-6 in the fifth. Tommy had played Jack Sock the day before but his was a straight set win with way less stress and recovery time needed ? But then again he is 35 years old. Recovery time ? What’s that ? He Could be playing in the seniors. Bottom line. Tennis players are the fittest athletes on the planet. They are warriors. The schedule shouldn’t dictate the tourneys outcome. The winner should be based on their skill, talent, abilities not someones silly scheduling.

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