Murray says top players don't like crowded 2012 schedule

Murray says top players don't like crowded 2012 schedule Andy Murray believes that player discontent over a jam-packed Olympic year playing schedule in 2012 could come to a head next month when the elite gather in Shanghai for the Masters 1000 event.

The Scot says that inserting the time-demanding Davis Cup into the mix will make life intolerable for top players. And he hopes that tennis officials will take notice and compromise with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, No. 1 Novak Djokovic and himself all voicing criticisms.

Murray, ranked fourth, joined his top colleagues in playing Davis Cup last weekend, with everyone but exhausted and injured US Open winner Djokovic coming through with a team victory.

"I'll need to have a look at my schedule and see exactly what's going on, which tournaments I'm going to play," said Murray, who says that fitting in Davis Cup only add to player scheduling problems.

"What happens in Shanghai – what the players decide to do – might also be quite significant. Maybe things will get done if all the players get together and say what they want exactly. It's ridiculous. They need to change it."

To accommodate the London Games, the Davis Cup schedule is again being shifted, with the first round ties set for February 10-12, little more than a a week after the end of the Australian Open.

The quarter-finals are in an even more inconvenient position (April 6-8), starting five days after the end of the hardcourt Miami Masters and before the start of the European clay season.