Sometimes the obvious needs to be said: The only withdrawals that João announced today were from the tournaments in Asia, that is: from TWO tournaments he would play, Tokyo and Shanghai. Any more dramatic talk about a career break is cheap sensationalism to generate more clicks. The European indoor tour starts in October. At the moment, he is signed up for the ATP 500 in Basel and the Masters 1000 in Paris. Basel starts on October 26, and he is defending the title. Could he withdraw? Of course, anything can happen, but at the moment he only announced from ASIA. In summary, there are great chances that he will play in a month, which would not justify so much media uproar, in my humble opinion. 😅 (translated)