Stefanos Tsitsipas slams ATP bosses for ‘backwards move’ in scathing rant

Stefanos Tsitsipas has launched a scathing attack on the new two-week Masters 1000 format after ending his 2024 season.

The world No. 12 finished his year at the Paris Masters – one of the few remaining one-week Masters tournaments.

After Andy Roddick ridiculed the “stupid” extended format of the top-tier ATP events, Tsitsipas piled on the criticism and claimed it was a “backwards move”.

The two-week Masters 1000s have been a massive point of contention this year as several premier tournaments had their original one-week schedule extended.

This year, the joint ATP-WTA 1000-point events in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Rome were staged over two weeks, as was the ATP-only Shanghai Masters. And from 2026, the Canadian Open and the Cincinnati Open will also be played over a longer time period.

While it allows organisers to increase the draw sizes to let lower-ranked players compete and helps them sell more tickets to bank more money, the players haven’t been happy with the change. And Tsitsipas became the latest star to speak out in a brutal rant.

“The two-week Masters 1000s have turned into a drag,” he wrote. “The quality has definitely dropped.