NickZ3535 wrote:No, players skip 1000s all the time, they are just fined. I mean look at Andy Roddick, he usually skips all of the 1000s and just plays Roland Garros... occasionally he plays the 1000 before. And Monte Carlo is a 1000, Federer is skipping it this week.
At the beginning of last year the ATP brought in new rules stating that all 1000's sre compulsory except Monte Carlo, since that there has been no skipping, Roddick i think was 'injured'