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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

Wimbledon is notorious for dubious scheduling. Although the lawns are pretty, my admiration stops there. I think they're a bunch of old purists who are stuck in the Dark Ages. I've been through with them since 2007 when they made Rafa and Nole play all of those matches back to back.

And then, they put them on late further compounding the problem. Rafa made it to the final and did well until his knee went out and Novak retired in the SF.

Since then, as a tournament Wimbledon has been my BOO tournament with their scheduling decisions. Putting Serena a 5-time winner on Court 1 while giving Maria, a one time winner, Center Court practically every time. Assigning Pete to the Graveyard Court, for which they later apologized, but what good is an apology after you've committed an intentional act?

If it wasn't a major, I'd boycott it, that's how low I think the organizers are.