French tennis player Arthur Rinderknech said he drank 15-litre bottles of water during US Open second-round match against Russian Andrei Rublev .
The match took place on Wednesday and ended with Rublev’s victory with a score of 4:6, 5:7, 6:1, 6:2, 6:2. The tennis players spent 4 hours and 9 minutes on the court.
— We saw how, in this five-set match, you tried everything to calm down.
– That’s it! We have a pipe that brings fresh air, it feels great, but it’s not enough. There was an ice pack in the tub next to it, as well as an ice towel that I put around my neck every time I changed sides. I drank, I think, 15-liter bottles, which means I drank 15 liters. I ate everything I could, but it’s so hard to eat in this heat. It was extreme.
I am waiting for the day when an accident will happen. We are like dogs on the field, not a single player backs down, we do not think, we rush, it is 4000 degrees, it is dangerous. This year, there are slower balls, so the rallies are longer and the matches are longer. And the breaks between plays are getting shorter and shorter. Daniil Medvedev once said that one day someone will die on the field. Whether he dies or not, I do not know, but something will happen.
I would like to admit that the judge was very understanding towards us. He allowed us to have another break. Judges are not always so lenient. I accepted a voluntary warning because I could not take it anymore, but Rublev, in my opinion, could not. The humidity complicates the situation. You are very wet. I changed shoes three times and probably used 12 or 13 T-shirts.
“We have also seen players vomit. For example, the Argentinian Tomas Martin Echeverri.
“I had a lump in my throat several times. It’s so hot that you want to drink non-stop. Every drop of water is a great joy, but the problem is that we’re so thirsty that we drink like crazy, there’s too much water in our body,” quotes Arthur Rinderknech in L’Equipe.
Rublev will face Czech Jiri Legechka in the third round of the US Open.
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