Nadal still advocating two-year ATP ranking
Category: Tennis
Publish Date: 12-18-2011 09:00 AM -0500
Rafael Nadal says that it’s OK for he and Roger Federer to disagree over some ATP World Tour issues, but still advocates a two-year ranking, which Federer opposes. Federer is the president of the ATP Players' Council while Nadal is the vice president. Federer has publicly opposed a tournament boycott, based on that the season is too long.
"He has his ideas as the council president, I have other ideas as vice-president," Nadal told DPA. "It's not that my or his ideas are bad. We need to justify them. Why one does not like the two-year ranking and why one does, why one does not want to stage a boycott...And I don't want to, either, there will not be any kind of a boycott, at least now, it’s very far away…I’m not the only one who likes the two-year ranking. There are many other players who also do, and the two-year ranking has a clear side, which is to protect all players, not just the top ones. It’s a protection for the players who are injured, that will not last until the end of their careers. It’s true that when you get injured today with the one-year ranking you can go up faster, but you also have to comeback from No. 700 in the world, like what happened to (Juan Martin) Del Potro. It’s more important not have to come back [from such allow ranking] and to play with less pressure when returning."
