For the tennis players who are preparing for the US Open, it is murderous to finish matches. Danill Medvedev already had enormous problems with the heat in the second round, in the third round the Frenchman Arthur Rindernech collapsed.
Rindernech had lost the first set against the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime And was the same in the second set 2-2 when he grabbed a towel and wanted to sit down. But on the way he collapsed. While he lay on his back with the towel on his head, medical care rushed to help him.
Rindernech picked up somewhat and started tennis again, but that didn’t last long. Two points later he still had to stop the fight.
Medvedev and the cool box
Earlier, in his second -class match against Adam Walton, Medvedev stabbed his head in a cool box of sponsor Gatorade that stood along the site, in an attempt to find cooling. It was to no avail: Medvedev – that visibly suffered under the heat – lost its competition.
Sabalenka with difficult victory to eighth finals in Cincinnati
With a difficult victory over Emma Raducanu, Aryna Sabalenka has penetrated the eighth finals of the Cincinnati tournament. The number 1 in the world was too strong in three sets for the British former winner of the US Open: 7-6 (3) 4-6 7-6 (5).
Sabalenka defends her title in Cincinnati and encounters in the eighth final on the Spanish Jessica Bouzas Maleiro. The 27-year-old player from Belarus will also defend her title on the US Open in two weeks.