Unlike Wimbledon, who has strict curfew laws stopping play at 11:00 p.m., Allaster assures that avenue will not be pursued.
“What I hear from players is that you’re ready to go, and you want the referee to say, ‘Hey guys, come back tomorrow?’ No. Exactly,” she said.
Roddick shook his head in agreement.
“From a player’s perspective, whenever you’re following a match, you’re a rolled ankle away from being on in fifteen minutes,” Roddick said. “Basically, when the match before you goes on, you need to be twenty minutes away from going on at all moments, and you can be twenty minutes away from going on for six hours, depending on what match you’re following. I’m already losing half of a day recovery, minimum.
“If I go to the next day, and all of a sudden, I get caught in a five-hour throwdown match and then I have to go back-to-back, that’s not a realistic scenario for me if I can buy ten hours on the front end. So, pretending as if there is a scripted version of this problem isn’t the place to start this conversation, in my opinion.”
