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Andrey Rublev, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Dusan Lajovic have all issued a call for the grass court season to be extended, with attention already turning to the Olympic clay in Paris.

Wimbledon is the highlight of the grass calendar but only a few events surround the Major, prompting the trio to ask for an extended period of time to play on grass throughout the year.

“I would like to see more grass court tournaments, but the trouble is we only have 12 months in the year,” Rublev told Tennis365.

“If we can make the some sacrifices with other tournaments, then maybe we can have more grass court events, but we always have this debate over how to fit everything into the season.”

Auger-Aliassime echoed the call and wants another Masters 1000 tournament put in place, explaining: “It would be great if we could get a Masters event on grass, for sure. Just trying to find a way to make it happen is the problem as the calendar is already so crowded.”

While Lajovic added: “All the other surfaces have a Masters event and clay has three, so it seems strange that we don’t have any on grass.

“I’ve been selected to be on the ATP Player Council this year and we are looking ahead to see how we can improve the schedule and one of the areas we will look at is getting more grass courts events in.”