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Zvonareva: Tennis schedule can't be perfect

ISTANBUL -- Vera Zvonareva admitted to being tired as her year draws to a close. But when asked whether she thought the offseason should be longer, she
Courtney Nguyen|

ISTANBUL -- Vera Zvonareva admitted to being tired as her year draws to a close. But when asked whether she thought the offseason should be longer, she articulated a very good summation of the scheduling dilemma.

"There are some pluses and there are some minuses," Zvonareva said Tuesday after her loss to Petra Kvitova at the WTA Championships. "Those people that played a lot of matches throughout the season, and I'm among them, those people that play until the end including the Championships and including the Fed Cup, well, it will be good to have extra weeks of rest, for sure, because we are pretty tired and we had a long season.

"But those players that weren't involved, for example, here in the Championships or the Fed Cup tournament, and those players that played maybe twice less matches than I did during [the] season, for them, maybe they need to play. It's enough time before the new season.

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COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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