'Simply not enough time' - Zverev on tight tennis tour schedule - video Dailymotion

Alexander Zverev says there is "simply not enough time" on tour

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00:00 I've been on tour now for 10 years and the conversation has always been,

00:02 you know, how can we make the season shorter? And by making the season shorter, it's not only

00:08 because we don't want to play tennis, no, we love to play tennis, but it's about how can we have

00:14 time to prepare our bodies for the physicality that tennis is and how do we have time to heal

00:19 our body. And if we have an 11-month season like we have now, I mean, for example, I talked to

00:25 Alex Diminar about it. He played the Davis Cup Final on the 29th of November and his first ATP

00:30 Cup match was the 29th of December, which is exactly one month. It's just simply not enough

00:34 time. It's not enough time to rest your body and it's also not enough time to physically prepare

00:39 your body because physical preparation is not how much you practice on a tennis court or how

00:43 much you play tennis. No, it's how much work you put in the gym, how much work you put on the track,

00:48 how much work you put on outside of the tennis court. And that you cannot do during the season.

00:52 It only gives us a period of time of resting and preparing for a body of four weeks, which

00:57 no other sport has.