French Open bosses come beneath fireplace as court docket scheduling ‘speaks for itself’

“During the tournament we all are playing the tournament, so our main goal and focus isn’t preaching to them on what they should be doing. It’s more of everyone is just trying to focus on what they’re doing.

“Obviously after every tournament and every few weeks we all have a big postmortem. We had a lot of meetings before the French Open started. Yeah, we can only give our input and say how we feel. I think during the tournament it’s hard to kind of fix that.”

But it was clear that Stephens wasn’t proud of the disparity, as she mentioned the schedule did the speaking. She added: “But, I mean, yeah, what you said speaks for itself. I don’t think there needs to be a lot of back and forth on it. It is what it is, and if the tournament is not going to change it, then there’s nothing we can do.”