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Wawrinka criticizes Wimbledon schedulers.

Stan is completely right.  Grossly unfair.  He and the others in his section will have to play 3 best of 5 matches 3 days in a row. Others like Nadal and Federer will play best of 5 matches 2 days in a row, while top half Murray, Djokovic and others continue to get a day off between matches.

Sunday no play when it was sunny due to tradition and court maintainance.  Saturday they started playing again at around 5 pm.  They had doubles and mixed doubles and other matches on outside courts, when they could have had the remaining 3 or 4 singles matches played on outside courts, and then everyone could have played Monday and had the day off Tuesday.

Security? Blahhh, what a stupid excuse. Short term thinking about money.  They wanted more fans to attend these matches and the outside court stands don't hold enough.  But stupid short term thinking could very well cost them the top name players playing at the end, when they are exhausted because of poor scheduling, not to mention it is unfair to one side of the draw. 

When players of Nadal and/or Federer's stature and popularity make it to the late stages, TV viewing ratings worldwide go up. This is important to the sponsors that foot the bills. Nobody is saying the tournament should bend over backwards to favor those players and especially Wawrinka and the others potentially playing 3 days in a row, but they should at least try to be fair to them.

Boo of the tournament on Wimbledon schedulers.  And they immediately become eligible for my Tournament Boo of the Year.

Disrespectfully,
masterclass