Übrigens deutliche Worte von Fognini (wie man ihn kennt) zur Debatte um die "Next Gen" und dem damit verbundenen Fame, den die jüngeren Spieler hier schon erhalten. Zudem geht er auch auf die fragwürdigen Ansetzungen ein:
“This Next Gen thing is BS, I didn’t like all the attention that this initiative has attracted.’ Fognini candidly said in Italian after his second-round win over Sweden’s Elias Ymer.
The Italian brought up a curious scheduling call by Roland Garros from earlier in the week to make his point.
“Years ago Rafa was winning Paris at 18, now we have Shapovalov who is 25 in the world, he is improving a lot but he plays the first match on Suzanne Lenglen and the second on Court 1,” he said, referring to the schedule that many on social media had questioned when it came out earlier in the week. “When I see the order of play I am stunned at seeing that Muguruza-Kuznetsova, for example, play somewhere else.”
“The ATP does many good things, but I don’t agree with this one, I don’t understand this Next Gen thing,” Fognini added. “I don’t agree to all this attention given to these young players. They play well, [Karen] Khachanov, [Andrey] Rublev, [Sascha] Zverev, [Denis] Shapovalov, they all play well, But there is such a frenzy about them, I don’t like it, I don’t agree.”
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