Andy Roddick, 2003 US Open champion, shall be amongst these to welcome the ATP’s ruling after calling out the stipulation that prize cash and rating factors from earlier wins on the competitors are additionally taken away.

“He has to now give up his prize money for the week, his ATP ranking points for the week, drops him out of the top five in the world,” Roddick mentioned on his podcast Served. “I don’t know what his meltdown on Friday has to do with his first, second, and third-round victories.

“He will have some of the blame because he went too far, but taking the money for the week, taking away the points because of a judgment call of some guy in a chair, that doesn’t make sense to me.”