French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo ran afoul of lots of in the tennis environment when she said before this week that men’s tennis has additional "enchantment" than women’s tennis, and now she has issued a significantly-envisioned apology.

"First of all the responses that I created were taken out of the broader image, out of the context," the previous Grand Slam winner explained to Tennis Channel on Thursday.

FILE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, still left, shakes palms with Spain's Rafael Nadal just after their semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, Friday, June 11, 2021 in Paris.  (WHD Photograph/Michel Euler, Filer)

"And I want to say sorry to the players that truly felt lousy about what I stated."

Mauresmo described that, by "enchantment," she intended that men’s matches are more time than women’s and consequently give single evening function ticket holders much more bang for their buck.

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"About the scheduling, especially for the night matches, my say was that due to the fact we have a person match only, it is genuinely more durable to schedule a woman’s match simply because we have to consider into thing to consider the size," Mauresmo reported.

Camila Giorgi of Italy is found in motion from Daria Kasatkina of Russia throughout working day 9 of the French Open at Roland Garros on May well 30, 2022 in Paris, France.  (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Visuals)

"It is the fair thing to do for the ticketholders."

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All those ticket holders weren’t much too joyful about the size of the match on Tuesday night however, irrespective of the truth that they witnessed reigning French Open champ Novak Djokovic drop 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 to rival star Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinal. The match could have been exhilarating, but it lasted in excess of four several hours and ended after 1 am regional time, blocking quite a few spectators from making use of community transportation to return household.

According to his supervisor, Nadal was not much too satisfied about the evening match possibly, as he promises that cooler evening temperatures negatively have an effect on his recreation.

FILE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, still left, and Spain's Rafael Nadal look at every single other as they pose for photographs prior to the remaining match of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020.  (WHD Photograph/Michel Euler, File)

However, mainly because of the uproar above her feedback, Mauresmo now states she thinks the match should to make some changes up coming 12 months to include women’s matches in primetime.

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"Subsequent calendar year to be far more fair to the women’s players it would be good to maybe have the risk to place two matches or maybe a women’s match additionally a doubles match," she said.

Perhaps subsequent yr, Djokovic and Nadal could just discover as females and take care of the challenge totally.