BBC Sport · Jan 2
'We need to protect players' - how can tennis avoid breaking point?
Image caption, Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek said in September she thinks the season is "too long and too intense"When Daria Kasatkina cut her 2025 season short in October, the former world number eight described how she had "hit a wall".
"The schedule is too much. Mentally and emotionally I'm at breaking point and, sadly, I'm not alone," she wrote.
Ukraine's Elina Svitolina, a two-time Wimbledon semi-finalist, had already announced she was not in "the mental space" to continue, while reigning Grand Slam champions Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz believe the calendar is too long.