Temperature over 30 degrees and moisture at the stars, the French leads 2-0 and then collapses: “I trembled, I didn’t know where I was”
Temperatures over 30 degrees and humidity rate at 85 percent. At the Masters 1000 in Shanghai the heat hits hard and the first to surrender was Terence Atmane. The Frenchman, on the pitch for the first round against Ugo Carabelli, retired for the effects of a heat coup on the score of 4 equal 0-30. In a story on Instagram Atmane, beaten in the eighth by Sinner at the Beijing tournament, he explained: “After the first point I felt my hands tremble, but I thought I was only more tense than usual. On the 2-0 for me I immediately felt my body tremble and I felt suffocated after every point … I could not breathe and my head hurt. I called the physiotherapist, but I could not speak. I trembled, I didn’t know where I was or what day was my body.
Saturday Jannik
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Sinner will make his debut on Saturday in the second round against Altmaier, the heat peak should arrive on Wednesday with 34 degrees and humidity rate to the stars so as to bring the perceived temperature to 40 degrees. In the pre -tournament press conference Jannik spoke of the weather conditions. “Here it is different from Beijing (in the last game of the semifinal with De Minaur he had had some cramps, editor’s note). It is more humid, it’s warmer. I have one day to rest and tomorrow I will have more feedback from my body and my mind”.
La Gazzetta dello Sport
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