"Six months wasted": Noah Rubin worries about players outside the world
Noah Rubin sees the corona pandemic as a major problem, especially for players far from the world's best.
by SID / tennisnet
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Aug 18, 2020, 09:04 am
"I can well imagine that we won't see some players on the tour after the end of the pandemic. Someone who is around 300 in the ranking and is maybe 29 or 30 years old will think twice about whether he is not just looking for another job, "said the American at Spox .
Rubin himself currently ranks 225th, but has a strong voice in tennis through his platform Behind the Racquet and the podcast of the same name .
Rubin: "Six months nothing tried"
The situation for the tennis world is currently "shitty", said the 24-year-old and criticized: "We wasted six months. We just lay on the couch for six months and did nothing. We didn't try to use the time to develop tennis. To drive change. That makes me sad. "
Above all, Rubin suggested reducing travel activities. "We have to find geographical solutions. We should leave the Grand Slams and Masters tournaments as they are, but around that we have to prevent players from having to travel a lot. We can see the problems that now brings with it. It's impossible to go back to some normalcy when the players are all over the world - it's a nightmare, "he said.
Rubin had long been calling for a reform of tennis .