{"id":605934,"date":"2026-05-27T03:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605934\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:14","slug":"french-open-2026-how-paris-heatwave-is-forcing-players-to-adjust-to-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605934\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open 2026: How Paris heatwave is forcing players to adjust to conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the soaring temperatures in Paris, there have been very few players wilting in the heat.<\/p>\n

Norway’s Casper Ruud was the most notable example, fearing he had suffered heatstroke<\/a> in a gruelling victory on Monday.<\/p>\n

French Open organisers monitor the temperature through two wet bulb sensors – one on Court Philippe Chatrier and one on Court 14.<\/p>\n

If the threshold is reached, a 10-minute break may be introduced after the second set of women’s matches and the third set of men’s matches.<\/p>\n

If temperatures continue to rise, matches can be suspended until the heat drops.<\/p>\n

No French Open match has ever been halted because of the heat.<\/p>\n

With the Paris heatwave forecast to last until Saturday, a match would be suspended when the reading on the FFT’s wet bulb thermometers – which assesses air temperature, humidity, sun exposure and wind to calculate the stress effect on the body – reaches 32.2C.<\/p>\n

The weather has not been severe enough for the heat policy to be invoked this year, but almost all the players have been using cooling mechanisms during matches.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Daria Kasatkina said she found it “very, very tough” physically.<\/p>\n

“You can suddenly just get out of the bench and feel that your focus dropped,” she said. <\/p>\n

“This is a battle which you have to also win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the soaring temperatures in Paris, there have been very few players wilting in the heat. Norway’s Casper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}