Players have been struggling with the heat during this week’s tournament, with temperatures regularly exceeding 30C.<\/p>\n
Francisco Comesana and Reilly Opelka both took medical timeouts during their third-round match, which was also interrupted for 45 minutes by rain. <\/p>\n
Argentine Comesana won 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 7-5, saving three match points, but he needed medical attention in the second set, with a ball girl rushing to hand the 24-year-old a sick bag as he made his way gingerly back to his seat. <\/p>\n
American Opelka, 27, also called for the doctor in the final set, complaining of dizziness and high blood pressure after being broken for 5-6. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, second seed Coco Gauff advanced to the last 16 without hitting a ball after Dayana Yastremska withdrew from their third-round tie because of illness.<\/p>\n
The American, who won the tournament in 2023, will face Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti for a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Heavy rain and lightning led to the night session being suspended at 21:03 local time.<\/p>\n
Men’s third seed Alexander Zverev was leading 6-4 5-4 and preparing to serve for the match against American Brandon Nakashima when they had to leave the court.<\/p>\n
Jessica Pegula, seeded fourth, and Magda Linette were also unable to complete their match.<\/p>\n
Linette won the first set 7-6 (7-5) but Pegula had just struck back to take the second 6-3 before the interruption.<\/p>\n
Ben Shelton’s match with Roberto Bautista Agut and Clara Tauson’s meeting with Veronika Kudermetova were both moved to Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players have been struggling with the heat during this week’s tournament, with temperatures regularly exceeding 30C. Francisco Comesana…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-79091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79091","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=79091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}