I totally agree with Andy Rodick. Top players are not­ FMC (Fast Moving Consumer Products), not subject to ATP­ dictative commercial abuse. Mr. Dwight Davis vision­ reflects in his famous line "Tennis world is a big­ world" highly unlikely including such dictative­ commerical calculation. It's very irritating and­ upsetting when ATP contitues dictating unreaonable­ calender which was alreay been critized openly last­ year.
Current ATP executives arrogance and­ short-sighted commercial calculation reminds me those­ fat cats in Wallstreet. As far as I can see again their­ own short-term monetary gain is the only thing they­ have in mind, not the long-term brilliant performance­ from top players bringing increasing popularity for­ tennis sport. Otherwise, how dare they continue to­ ignore opinon from top players? Is there any ATP staff­ member with the ability to substitute top players­ absent from tournaments due to injury? ATP is already a­ well established organization, it only needs normal but­ concious people with average intelligence to manage it.­
As a tennis fan over 20 years , I hope I am eligible­ to propose to add a hiring requriement for ATP board­ members and CEO to have the ability to win one game,­ just one game, from a players ranking , how about top­ 500. I can accept top 1000, if I am asking too much. It­ seems it is the only way to find out if they realy know­ what they are managing? Let's remind these high­ paid executives to make money the old fashion way - to­ earn it. I could not be convinced that current ATP­ executives have any idea how much efforts required from­ these top players for each 2 to 5 hours match with­ brilliant performance. If they do, how could they put­ up such an inhuman mandantory calender? Top competitive­ players ,not ATP executives, are the leading actors of­ the show? Without them, I will switch channel to watch­ Champion League Football games or NBA!

I agree with Andy. The ATP calendar is overloaded. If­ the top players don't have a break they will not be­ able to play at their best.

wel if u want to be n1 ranked at te end of the yr sum­ players are gna play lots n lots of tournaments so tht­ makes top playas av 2 work harder so i tink there shud­ be a limit of tournaments 2 be played

AndJusticeForAll - mhhh - interesting nickname - sounds­ like one old good album from the fearest band of the­ world - METALLICA, do u like them ? btw. i agree with­ andy - hes right, there are too many important­ tournaments, although i like watching all those­ matches, but we should listen to players, because­ because without them there wouldnt be any tournaments­ at all.

Its a funny position: When you are new on the scene,­ you want to play every tournament, but as you become­ succesful, you want to select. Have they forgotten that­ he who pays the piper dictates the tune?

That's right. These top players should be able to­ wave some tournaments away disregarding what the ATP­ says in terms of penalties for the sake of their own­ health and a fair competition where the players are not­ prone to likely injuries. We, the public want to see­ healthy tennins matches not oversaturated overworked­ tennis players.

These players are asked to use more energy than a­ nuclear plant. They play on average 20 days per month­ plus all the travelling time (top players that is).­ Footballers, who get paid far more, spend on average­ 270 minutes per week actually playing, whereas a top­ tennis player spend arounf 1000 minutes. It is asking­ too much of the human body for their own health.­ Injuries are going to become rife and that is not what­ the paying public want - stars that cant turn up to­ events

I agrre with Roddick. ATP calendar is overloaded.