PALM. - Both better tennis players of the world, the Majorcan Rafa Nadal and the Swiss Roger Federer stand against the reform of the calendar of matches that carries out the ATP. Nadal and Federer, like maximum exponents of the racket at international level, have given a joint press conference in Montecar it before the beginning of the match, that the ATP tries to suppress the one of Hamburg along with.
?We requested that the reform stops?, has sentenced the one of Manacor, to which Federer has secundado protesting that is listened to the opinion of the tennis players, of whom, until now, the ATP has made ears deaf. ?They do not leave time us to reflect. The decisions already are taken when they arrive at our ears?, has sentenced Federer, that has requested a flowed and serious dialogue more with the high instances of the ATP.
THEY REPRESENT OTHER 65 PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYERS
Both champions, who have acceded to be the representatives of other 65 tennis players of the professional circuit, have signed along with the rest of companions against you plant them of the president of the ATP, the South African Etienne de Villiers, whom he tries to reduce to the number of Masters Series, nine to eight, and to eliminate those of Montecar it and Hamburg.
In return, he glides to create a mixed match that would be celebrated in spring in Madrid on beaten earth, in substitution of which the Spanish capital lodges now in autumn on fast track.
Rafa and Federer defend that the matches of Hamburg and Montecar it are emblematic appointments. ?The project (of the ATP) is unjust for matches like Montecar it and Hamburg, that has one long history and they do not deserve to be eliminated?, has assured Nadal, that although both tests have less attractive commercial and of public.
FEDERER ALSO CRITICIZES THE DATES OF DAVIS
Federer has also criticized to the Federation the International of Tenis (ITF) by the calendar of the Glass Davis, who just usually places eliminatory after Masters the Series or of Grand Slam, which prevails to the countries of important players.
?It seems that they know better than we as they are the best dates to play?, she has cut Federer butcher, who already lost the eliminatory one that Swiss disputed against Spain.
The fight against the reform of the calendar could not have better representatives than Rafa and Federer, although the direction of the ATP has not considered until now nor if it both loves men who the more do by the spectacle of tennis. That although at the time of making promotional acts or publicitar the matches both they are the used reclamation more.
CHELA, FIRST STUMBLING BLOCK OF RAFA IN MONTECAR IT
Nadal and Federer are in Montecar it for the beginning of the season on beaten earth. Both are exentos of the first round but Rafa already has rival. The Argentinean will face a Juan Ignacio Chela, one of the best players of the circuit in the first months of this year, that has dominated the Dutch player Martin Verkerk by 7-5 and 6-2, in one hour and 29 minutes of game.