{"id":2265,"date":"2025-06-21T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2265\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:53:12","slug":"zverev-and-medvedev-win-after-sickness-and-nosebleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2265\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev and Medvedev win after sickness and nosebleed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number three Alexander Zverev sprinted off court to vomit mid-match but recovered to beat Italy&#8217;s Flavio Cobolli 6-4 7-6 (8-6) at the Halle Open.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game of his quarter-final of the grass-court tournament Zverev requested a toilet break and ran off court to be sick.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He looked visibly unwell on his return and initially struggled in longer rallies, but he got better as the match went on and managed to hold off world number 24 Cobolli.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt fine before the match. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I felt really, really bad. I felt ill, went to throw up and then 15 minutes later I felt OK again,&#8221; the 28-year-old German said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what it was, I&#8217;ve never experienced that before. I hope I&#8217;ll be fine in the next couple of hours when the adrenaline settles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-finals Zverev will face Daniil Medvedev, whose match on Friday was also briefly delayed when the Russian had a nosebleed on court.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Despite needing a medical timeout in the second set, the former world number one ended up cruising to a 6-4 6-3 win over American Alex Michelsen to keep his preparations for Wimbledon on track, with 10 days to go before the start of the grass-court Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The shadows on the court made the conditions quite difficult. It took some time to get used to it,&#8221; Medvedev, 29, said.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka saves four match points in win<\/p>\n<p>There was also drama at the Berlin Open, where world number one Aryna Sabalenka saved four match points to beat Elena Rybakina 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 7-6 (8-6).<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian was down 6-2 in the deciding tie-break and only saved the first match point thanks to a fortunate net cord.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was to be the momentum swing Sabalenka needed. Kazakh 2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina never recovered and Sabalenka won the next five points to reach Saturday&#8217;s semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing to win matches like this, it trains your fighting spirit for the next tournaments and I&#8217;m proud of myself for trying till the very last point,&#8221; said Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old will face another former Wimbledon champion in the semi-finals in Czech Marketa Vondrousova, who beat Tunisian Ons Jabeur 6-4 6-1 in a re-match of their 2023 final at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750506792_228_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number three Alexander Zverev sprinted off court to vomit mid-match but recovered to beat Italy&#8217;s Flavio Cobolli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3098,3099,3100,2767,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-2265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander-zverev","9":"tag-daniil-medvedev","10":"tag-flavio-cobolli","11":"tag-match-points","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114721220506392470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}