World No. 11 Holger Rune has urged the ATP to implement a heat rule after a chaotic start to the Shanghai Masters. There were seven retirements through the first three rounds, while plenty of players – including Rune himself – have had their vitals checked mid-match.<\/p>\n
The Danish star explained: “I think there should be a heat rule like there are in the Grand Slam. I think every player would agree on that.<\/p>\n
“Today was better, as you say, today was less hot. But again, it was less hot, but if it was more normal temperature today would be very hot. I think it was like 31 degrees and very humid. But compared to the other days it was pretty brutal.<\/p>\n
“So I think there should be some kind of rule. We can handle a certain amount of heat because, you know, we are fit, we’re strong, we’re mentally strong as well, but there’s always a limit. I think it’s also important to take care of your health. We need to survive.<\/p>\n
“I think some kind of rule, you know, not that we should stop if it’s just more than this, but like the Grand Slam, you know, they have a feeling on when it’s a little bit too much, and we wait a little bit to see if it drops.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No. 11 Holger Rune has urged the ATP to implement a heat rule after a chaotic start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[35772,1070,4295,22185,79,1068,47601,5838,49765,16,15,159535],"class_list":{"0":"post-485080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-novak-djokovic","11":"tag-shanghai-masters","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tennis-live","15":"tag-tennis-news","16":"tag-tennis-updates","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wuhan-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115343044637925021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}