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August 6, 2026

Guillaume Marx

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English.

Q. Good morning. Do you think players are ultimately playing or encouraged to play too many tournaments in the run-up to the US Open?

GUILLAUME MARX: Too many tournaments, I'm not sure. I don't think it's too many tournaments. I think the big change overall it's the fact that -- you know, there has been small changes years after years.

That's at the end making a little bit of an impact, which is Wimbledon one week later, which is us one week earlier, no switch anymore with the girls and Cincinnati.

So at the end we're a little bit more exposed, and at the moment we don't deliver to have the best players committing to the tournament for the last few years. So we do have to find a solution, especially on the short summer.

This year it's not a short summer, like last year. So we need to find a -- you know, we need to get in a better position to have the players for sure.

Q. Have you spoken to ATP about this and what have they said to you? And, also, do you think it's acceptable to the ticket holders, to the commercial partners in Montreal, that some of the top, top players are not here now and there are no Canadians left in the men's singles draw either?

GUILLAUME MARX: I don't believe the players are happy to skip a tournament. It's not that. They are their own priority, and you can accept their -- the schedule is tough. It's tough. They have to spend two months in North America. It's tough. They have their schedule. They need to manage themselves.

It's just like we need to defend the tournament, and we need the best players to come to Montreal or Toronto. That's for sure. And we need to work towards that. It's that simple.

Q. Just quick one. I know you said you don't want to kind of speculate on injuries, but I know that Tennis Canada they have the big matchup with France next month in Quebec City. With all these Canadians getting injured, is that a concern at all, especially with Felix saying that he would play this? Is this a concern for the Tennis Canada ahead of that matchup?

GUILLAUME MARX: I mean, for sure, we need our players, our top players to be healthy. That's for sure. So it's obviously in our minds.

I'm not too worried about Felix, because like he said in the press yesterday, it's an injury that he knows a little bit, that occurred already. Usually it doesn't take too long. It's just yesterday he couldn't play. So we are pretty positive.

Gabriel, we'll see now how long it's going to take.

For sure, we'll have to monitor all that for sure. It's in our mind. Yes.

THE MODERATOR: All right. Thank you, everyone.