Medvedev warns about ‘harmful’ US Open warmth

AFP

Daniil Medvedev overcame suffocating warmth and humidity to win his US Open quarter-final on Wednesday and stated it may have been “dangerous” if the three-set match had gone on for much longer.

Medvedev and fellow Russian Andrey Rublev had been so drenched in sweat it seemed like that they had been dunked within the close by Hudson River amid a punishing warmth wave gripping New York.

“We left everything out there,” stated Medvedev, who claimed the 6-4 6-3 6-4 win in slightly below three hours.

“The factor is that even when it will go additional, we’d nonetheless go away much more… and the one factor that may be a little bit, let’s name it harmful, is the query of how far may we go?

“Maybe we may go 5 units and it will be ‘superb,’ yeah, we’d wrestle slightly bit subsequent day and it will be superb.

“Or we have a person in Yibing Wu who fell down in Washington.”

The 23-year-old Wu collapsed on the court docket amid oppressive warmth through the first set of his match on the Washington Open in late July, forcing the Chinese participant to retire from the competition in a scary scene.

The US Open this 12 months has experimented with partially closing the roofs of their stadiums to offer extra shade throughout day matches however not like the Australian Open, has no coverage permitting for the suspension of play because of excessive warmth.

Medvedev stated he does not have the solutions however wished to be on the file as saying he was involved.

“Probably we cannot stop the tournament for four days because… then it basically ruins everything, the TV, even the tickets,” stated Medvedev, the match’s third seed and 2021 champion.

“Could we go to a few units when the situations are like this? Also, some guys usually are not going to be glad.

“I don’t have real solutions but it’s still better to speak a little bit about it before something happens.”