After Elena Rybakina’s WTA Finals Withdrawal, Players Association Presses Fatigue Concerns
Elena Rybakina WTA Finals withdrawal and player fatigue concerns: Elena Rybakina's WTA Finals withdrawal: The Professional Tennis Players Association says the world number one's body had nothing left to give, renewing criticism of the tennis schedule and calling for seasons that leave players healthy enough to finish them.
Elena Rybakina WTA Finals withdrawal and player fatigue concerns, Digi Mart USA News: The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) reiterated its criticism of the tennis schedule on Monday, saying world number one Elena Rybakina withdrew from the season-ending WTA Finals because her body “had nothing left to give.”
Defending champion Rybakina said on Saturday she was not physically ready to compete at the tournament, and organizers cited a viral illness for the Kazakh’s withdrawal.
Rybakina, who won two Grand Slam titles this year, also withdrew from the Tokyo quarterfinals last month because of a neck injury.
“She finishes 2026 with two Grand Slam titles and four titles overall. And still, by the season’s final event in November, her body had nothing left to give,” the PTPA said in a post on social media.
“Players shouldn’t reach the biggest event of the year running on empty. The PTPA continues to push for a season that leaves players healthy enough to finish it.”
The WTA Tour did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The elite women’s tour has previously said athlete welfare is a top priority and that it has listened to players’ views on the calendar.
Concerns over player workload are echoed on the men’s ATP Tour. American Taylor Fritz said on Sunday that the sport’s brief off-season left players with little opportunity to recover.
“It’s just so year-round, round-the-clock,” he said on The Running Interview Show. “We have a one-month off-season and, if you take that off-season off, you’d be showing up without practice at the beginning of the year.
“So, essentially, you can only really take, max, two weeks off, and then you have to be training. So we essentially get no time off ever.
You are literally living out of a suitcase.”
The ATP has said players retain choices over their schedules and that it is working to create incentives for an appropriate number of matches to be played during the season.
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