{"id":458403,"date":"2023-09-07T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458403"},"modified":"2023-09-07T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:20:17","slug":"medvedev-warns-heat-in-new-york-will-kill-players","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/medvedev-warns-heat-in-new-york-will-kill-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev warns heat in New York will &#8216;kill&#8217; players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev may have cruised to comfortable straight sets victory over his good friend Andrey Rublev on Wednesday, but the match was anything but easy as temperatures skyrocketed to 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 Celsius), which was the hottest day in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev had to towel off throughout the entirety of the game as the humid conditions really took its toll on the players.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Daniil Medvedev on the conditions in his match against Andrey Rublev:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne player is gonna die. And they\u2019re gonna see.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zQhXWmdGQU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zQhXWmdGQU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1699518834464739622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot imagine,\u201d he said. \u201cOne player (is) gonna die, and they\u2019re gonna see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing that is a little bit, let\u2019s call it dangerous, is that the question is: How far could we go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old even had to receive medical help during the second-set changeover as doctor intervened to look at the player&#8217;s breathing with a stethoscope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the first set, I couldn\u2019t see the ball anymore,\u201d Medvedev said.<\/p>\n<p>The world No.3 will go against defending champions Carlos Alcaraz in the 1\/2 finals in battle for a spot in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev may have cruised to comfortable straight sets victory over his good friend Andrey Rublev on Wednesday, but the match was anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458404,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17539,4051],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[1891,2951],"acf":{"announce":"The top-ranked Russian raised his concerns about the abnormal condition the players are forced to play in","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458405,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458403\/revisions\/458405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458403"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458403"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}