Signed.  It is an absolute disgrace and De Villiers should fine himself for bringing the game into disrepute.

Last week's BA situation was bad enough, but changing the rules mid-tournament and saying that Blake "would have won" - what if Del Potro's breathing problems had stopped and he had been fit to carry on? How many times have we seen players who appeared to be finished, rally and go on to win?

This smacks of positive corruption. The ATP ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

blake has been knocked out after atp say reinstatment was a mistake

Thank goodness De Villiers has been made to eat humble pie and reinstate Korolev.

But please still sign the petition, it is more about getting rid of RR generally than just the Blake/Korolev situation.

And what fan would possibly want to watch a match whereby it is very conceivable that the winner goes out and the loser goes through! Eg if A beats B in 2 sets, B beats C in 2, then C beats A in 3, then A would be going through, and hence celebrating upon losing! Crazy!

I disagree Blake should have gone through. He lost to Korolev, so rather bizarre that Blake should then go through ahead of Korolev because of the differing manners of their matches against another opponent. Situations such as the 6-1 5-1 40-0 guy retiring and thus the guy winning the match going out when if he'd won one more point he would have gone through are simply a product of this ridiculous RR situation. It is unworkable in theory AND IN PRACTISE AS HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN NUMEROUS TIMES. Save us from this garbage and give us our game back. Winner through, loser out, nobody confused none of this bollocks about blah de blah games won percentage sets blah who gives a **** anyway blah de blah head 2 head retired blah de games won games completed blah whos through blah de ring de villers blah blah blah who cares, oh de villers does he wants blake thru, but blah ****in blah the rules say he ent so lets have a big blahdy fuss. It's simple, if you win you are through, if you are defeated you are out! Let's play that way please!

The great man has spoken:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6416395.stm

"I doubt it's going to happen next year, the round-robin system," Federer said. "I think it's a bad situation."

Federer added: "It's going to be interesting to see their (the ATP's) reaction now because they're definitely under pressure.

"Everybody knows I was against it (the round-robin system) in the first place.

"It's actually very disappointing to see things like this had to happen first before you realise that the system is not going to work."

Blake: "If some good can come out of it - the revamping or destruction of the round-robin system - then that is something," he said.

"It seriously needs to be looked at. We're going to run into situations every single week."