Casper Ruud has labelled players who complain about tennis balls as dramatic as the Norwegian aims to end the season strongly.
Ruud is normally a well-tempered player who is always respectful and gives nuanced views on topics.
However there is one topic this season that everyone has an opinion on and that’s the difference in tennis balls from tournament to tournament.
It’s certainly a topic that has had a lot of debate with players seemingly unhappy that the weight of ball isn’t the same for every tournament.
However Casper Ruud is tired of the complaints as he revealed on the ‘Nothing Major Podcast’ which is hosted by Sam Querrey, “You see players complain about the balls all the time,” Ruud was quoted by tennis infinity as saying on the podcast.
“I’m getting so tired of like ‘Oh, I feel my elbow… I feel this, that. I can’t produce power. It suits this player..’ Come on. Just play. For me what’s funny is some players come like 5 days in advance to practice. And I do it myself a lot of the times, unless you’re going from tournament to tournament.
“They string like 28 racquets to get the right tension. Then they come to the 4th round and start complaining about the balls. But it’s been the same balls for the past 9 days. What’s the point of bringing it up now to the umpire? Like what is he gonna change? ‘yeah, let me call Dunlop I’ll have them send over a can for you’. What’s the point? Just to make drama out of nothing?“
An uncharacteristic response from Ruud as he now prepares to end the season strongly at the last Masters 1000 event of the season.
The Norwegian is currently seventh in the race to Turin and needs a deep run in France to ensure he competes at the Nitto ATP Finals.
In his first match Ruud will either play Jordan Thompson or a qualifier.
