Krajicek hopes ATP events are protected amid partnership with Saudi

Speaking earlier this month, Richard Krajicek said the ATP calendar was already full.

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00:00 The 1000 tournaments, the Grand Slams and the 500 events are protected there, so it

00:07 doesn't affect those tournaments as much. I mean, I know there's a tournament just before

00:13 Basel and Vienna, but the players are finished on Saturday. They arrive Saturday evening

00:18 and they'll probably play Wednesday, their first match, so then they have four days to

00:22 get used to it. So there is some influence, but mainly on the 250 events and for them,

00:31 yeah, hopefully there can be some kind of solution because we shame if exhibitions take

00:36 over too much from or hurt too much the 250 events.

00:41 So yeah, there's a lot of talk and I don't know what's true. There's talk about before

00:44 the Strain Open in the Week Zero, they call it, so and after or maybe even another time

00:51 of the year. So yeah, let's see what happens. So I mean, the calendar is pretty full and

00:57 for the moment I don't think there are any sanctions to be bought, but let's see what