Andy Roddick
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Yeah, but he's like.
Send me healthy.
He goes, you can't tell me that I shouldn't hate it when you haven't lived through.
The personal side wasn't worth the other side.
You can't tell me how to gauge those things.
I can go off on this in a million different directions.
You can't have an 11 and a half month season and expect people to be committed when it's not in front of them.
And in order to have a conversation that's
realistic and in the right actual spirit of change.
The tour runs independently from the ITF, which is in charge of the protocols for the Olympics, which is in charge of drug testing, which is separate from the Grand Slams, which is separate from the team events, which is separate from the... Everyone fighting for those couple of weeks.
So everyone agrees everything needs to be shorter.
Everyone agrees these changes and no one is willing to give.
And so then you bring in money from other parts of the world.
Everyone's reacting to like, is that going to set off...
Is that what's happened?
Are the Saudis entering this space as well?
But it's just everyone lives in their own silo.
The biggest properties, which are the slams, aren't in control or don't really care about how tennis is delivered throughout the year.
So when ESPN comes in and buys only the slam rights, whoever's negotiating that deal doesn't sell them the Monday night game with two losing teams in December.
That's a mistake.