Athletistic / Tennis. Russian tennis player Karen Khachanov spoke about his unsuccessful performance at the US Open. In the first round, he lost to British Daniel Evans in a five-set match.

The match, which lasted more than five hours, set a new record for the longest match at the US Open.

“I woke up feeling like I had been beaten with a bat. I tried not to show it at all, but after 5.5 hours I started to get cramps all over my body. No, I’m not trying to say that I lost because of Ceci. Me and the opponents were on equal terms. But at the end of the match, a mental battle began.

Khachanov and Evans played the longest match in US Open history

I am very devastated and disappointed that I did not manage to win in the end. But I want to stress that after such matches it is psychologically extremely difficult to get through them.

Please, I ask you to be more respectful. Do not kick someone when he is on the ground. Even if I fell, I am definitely not knocked out!” Khachanov wrote on his social media page.



Athletistic