Medvedev: "I can finish the match, but I can die" - Spaniard Paula
Over 30 degrees Celsius and a humidity of almost 70 percent - the conditions in Tokyo are everything else pleasant, especially for the tennis professionals, who play on Hardcourt and are likely to feel in the square as in an oven.
Medvedev's sarcasm
On Wednesday, above all, the Spaniard Paula Badosa Gibert was felt, which suffered a heat stroke in her match against Marketa vondrouusova (Czech Republic), giving up and brought in a wheelchair from the Court. Large trouble also had Daniil Medvedev in his match against the Italian Fabio Fognini. The Russian looked physically struck, took two "Medical Timeouts" and seemed generally exhausted.
At some point, the World Ranking Limest was asked by the impartial Carlos Ramos if he was fine. The answer of the 25-year-old fell Sarkarkatic: "I can finish the match, but I can die. If I die, you then take the responsibility?" Ultvedev ultimately dragged himself to Fognini with 6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 2 and then betrayed that he was "black in mind".
ITF directs one
Such hard conditions as on Wednesday were here no novelty in Tokyo. Even in the rounds before, there had been complaints of players, especially with regard to the early terminations. Among other things, Novak Djokovic vehement had been used to lay the games in the afternoon.
However, the organizers remained hard, but now steered. If the cours in the Ariak Tennis Park opened up at 11am local time (4 o'clock MESZ), the matches start from Thursday from 3 pm (8 o'clock Mesz). The ITF wants to "act in the interest of health and well-being" the players.
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