“No crazy schedule” – Fritz details his vision for a ‘premium’ ATP Tour

Taylor Fritz has defended his comments suggesting the creation of a “premium” ATP Tour – along the lines of the PGA tour card for a season in golf – and suggested it would go some way to alleviating the scheduling problems players are facing.

“The ‘main top tour’ should be made up of the top 100-120 players, kind of like how top 125 in PGA get a tour card, and at the end of the year some people go down and some people come up into main tour,” he wrote on X.

The American added: “This system would ensure everyone plays same number of tournaments (12/14 marquee events, 128 draw) and nobody can complain about how someone got [their] points/ranking because nobody can pick up points elsewhere.”

Fritz had originally said to the Sydney Morning Herald: “If you’re on the main, top tour, you should be set to play all the big events, and they should all be slightly bigger-draw events to get basically everybody in the top 100 in, and I think that’s honestly all we should play.

“You can have 14 marquee events, and it makes tennis easy to follow for fans because all you have to pay attention to is those tournaments. There’s no people getting tons of points in between events, at like 250s and 500s, and more than anything, there’s no crazy schedule for us players.”

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