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Just days after Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick spoke out against the risk of injuries from the long season, the injuries rained down on Shanghai.

Roddick, Juan Martin del Potro, Gael Monfils, Tommy Haas Jose Acasuso, and Mischa Zverev have all dropped out of Shanghai with injury already this week, and the tournament is less than half done.

So what should be done?

A quick fix would seem to me to be to move the Asian swing into the part of the season between the Australian Open and Indian Wells, where the Tokyo women's tournament used to be.  Have them be indoors (or outdoors if possible in warmer climes like Guangzhou, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur).  It would make the shift to Dubai easier, and would keep players in one hemisphere for a while.  San Jose and Memphis could stay the week before Indian Wells as warm-ups for that.

I would then have the European indoor season start immediately after the US Open, which works perfectly as a lead in to the Tour Finals now that they're in London.  Move Rotterdam and Marseille into the fall too, for good measure.

It should be a fairly easy, doable solution. 

Which of course means it won't happen.