Jakub Mensik collapsed on court after his second-round win and Novak Djokovic sweltered for almost four hours as players were made to work hard on another hot Paris day at the French Open.<\/p>\n
Temperatures reached the mid-30s in Celsius as the heatwave in France continued.<\/p>\n
Mensik, 20, was overcome with emotion and cramp as he fell to the floor after beating Argentina’s Mariano Navone 6-3 2-6 6-4 1-6 7-6 (13-11) in four hours and 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Czech – whose flashes of brilliance in his young career have been beset by injury – was struggling to move and needed eight match points to close out victory.<\/p>\n
After he fell the floor, opponent Navone crossed the net to congratulate him and also help him up, but Mensik was unable to move.<\/p>\n
The 26th seed lay on the floor for several minutes and was attended to by a number of medical staff, who placed ice packs on his head, neck and chest to help.<\/p>\n
An ice pack was also laid on the floor for Mensik to rest his head on like a pillow.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Mensik was helped to his feet and was able to walk off court, only to struggle again as he headed towards the locker room.<\/p>\n
He was then placed in a wheelchair and taken away – it remains to be seen if he will recover for his third-round match against eighth seed Alex de Minaur on Friday.<\/p>\n
Mensik was competing on one of the outer courts at Roland Garros, which offer no shade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jakub Mensik collapsed on court after his second-round win and Novak Djokovic sweltered for almost four hours as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-668774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}