Comments on: Tour Road Map to Include Tougher Fines, Suspensions, Shorter Schedule

By: pov

pov — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:16:01 +0000

Will,
Yeah, the part about the injury/suspension setup seems even more prone to abuse. I mean “The only person who can say you’re injured is you. You’ve got to make that decision. ??? lol
Even so, 2009 will be great.

By: Will.I.AM

Will.I.AM — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:42:42 +0000

And another thing- Where is all of this increased prize money coming from!? Does this mean tickets prices will increase? Smaller tournaments will have to be canceled? That isn’t fair to the fans! I don’t think they thought this through. It’s like they had a brainstorming meeting and decided to implement every idea on the list. 2009 will be a disater!

By: Will.I.AM

Will.I.AM — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:35:42 +0000

Uh, that was kind of confusing. Just a lot of information given in a unstructured manner. I need for them to distribute this via a flowchart.

One thing that stuck out was the player suspensions for skipping one of the 14 required tournaments? But if the player says she’s injured, she doesn’t get suspended, but she does miss out on the bonus pool and gets zero ranking points? I’m confused. Other than an increased bonus pool, how is this different from the way it is now?

And changing the number of required tournaments from 26 to 14 won’t help either. Top players are still going to play ten tournaments a year and maybe all four grandslams. It won’t change anything. There are just less tournaments for the player to skip.