Andy Murray’s former coach states what ATP players should do if they want week-long Masters 1000 events again

One of Andy Murray’s former coaches has made it abundantly clear what should happen if week-long Masters 1000 events are to return to the ATP Tour.

In 2024 the nine tournaments that award 1000 ranking points to the winner were extended from one week to two weeks.

This means the events now start earlier than before and players now have more time between each round.

But this has been criticised by some players, including Stefanos Tsitsipas who made his feelings known on social media platform X.

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Tsitsipas strongly disagrees with the extended Masters 1000 events and claimed the quality of the matches has dropped since the change and there is now a lack of rest of practice time for the players.

After the Greek player voiced his views on X, in which he also accused the ATP Tour of not knowing if the change would improve the schedule, Murray’s former coach and commentator Mark Petchey issued a response.

The Brit does not agree with the World number 12’s views and was very frank in what he thinks should happen for Masters 1000 tournaments to return to a one-week format.

“I don’t disagree with Stefanos opinion but then the players need to take a pay cut as the revenue from TV revenue and tickets will drop, as will the contributions into their pensions,” he tweeted.

“But it is disingenuous to say no one knew. They all know, they all took the increase in revenue and now there is pushback.