Clay Season Scheduling Change Needed

[Beacon Hill]

It made sense to have Madrid played before Rome, but now another scheduling change is needed to eliminate the back to back Madrid/Rome Masters events. As there is currently a two week break between Monte Carlo and Madrid, it would be easy to do:
Week 1 - 250/500 Events
Week 2 - Monte Carlo
Week 3 - 250/500 Events
Week 4 - Madrid
Week 5 - 250/500 Events
Week 6 - Rome
Week 7 - 250/500 Events
Week 8 - Roland Garros
It doesn't make sense to have Masters tournaments on consecutive weeks. It's bad enough doing it at IW and Miami, but at least those are two-week tournaments.

 

[PaulFCB]

Myeah, I would've liked Bucharest without an important 500 in the same week ( Barcelona ), but it's much better than in September when nobody wants to hear about clay.

There's also a week with 3x 250 after Barcelona and there's no point in putting a 500 before RG. So clay only has 1x 500 in the Spring and Hamburg in July, maybe Tiriac can make Bucharest a 500 .

 

[Mainad]

It doesn't make sense to have Masters tournaments on consecutive weeks. It's bad enough doing it at IW and Miami, but at least those are two-week tournaments.

Canada and Cincinnati are also back to back and, this year, Paris and the WTF will be back to back for the first time. MC and Shanghai are currently the only stand alone top tier tournaments other than the Slams.

The ATP seems to have a mania for playing their top events back to back!

 

[jackson vile]

Get rid of some hard court masters, we don't need 6 of them. Then add in a grass court masters, that should give enough time.

It made sense to have Madrid played before Rome, but now another scheduling change is needed to eliminate the back to back Madrid/Rome Masters events. As there is currently a two week break between Monte Carlo and Madrid, it would be easy to do:
Week 1 - 250/500 Events
Week 2 - Monte Carlo
Week 3 - 250/500 Events
Week 4 - Madrid
Week 5 - 250/500 Events
Week 6 - Rome
Week 7 - 250/500 Events
Week 8 - Roland Garros
It doesn't make sense to have Masters tournaments on consecutive weeks. It's bad enough doing it at IW and Miami, but at least those are two-week tournaments.

 

[PaulFCB]

Canada and Cincinnati are also back to back

And this year, they will go there just after the Olympic games.

 

[Murrayfan31]

It will be fixed once Monte-Carlo is eliminated out of the 1000 series list. Just a matter of time.