{"id":29309,"date":"2025-07-01T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/29309\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:49:08","slug":"john-mcenroe-fears-something-serious-will-happen-at-wimbledon-after-match-halted-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/29309\/","title":{"rendered":"John McEnroe fears ‘something serious’ will happen at Wimbledon after match halted | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

John McEnroe fears “something serious” will happen on court after players struggled with the blistering heat on the opening day of Wimbledon<\/a>. Two-time finalist Ons Jabeur <\/a>was the first to retire as she struggled to breathe late in the first set.<\/p>\n

A fan needed medical treatment as Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>‘s clash with Fabio Fognini was suspended for 15 minutes midway through the fifth set on Centre Court. And shortly afterwards, Elena-Gabriela Ruse was sick in a bin on court during her loss to American No.6 seed Madison Keys.<\/p>\n

The temperature peaked at 34C at SW19 on Monday and McEnroe fears there could be more serious consequences it does not get any cooler.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe heat affected him [Alcaraz] a lot more than I had anticipated, that can happen,” McEnroe told the BBC<\/a>. “It\u2019s a scary thing. I never cramped on a court, it\u2019s got to be torture. Who was it that was playing Madison Keys (Elena-Gabriela Ruse)? I don\u2019t recall her name but she was having all types of medical problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really hard to watch in a way because you are worried that something serious is going to happen here. This is extremely difficult. I am sitting here with you now and I am like: \u2018Thank god it cooled off, Clare said bring John at 12 and I am like: No! I am not coming until it cools off’.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that affected him [Alcaraz] more than he even thought so come Wednesday he can cool off, back to business and then he will, I presume, get his act together.\u201d<\/p>\n

One suggestion to keep the main showcourts cooler is to close the roofs. But Alcaraz is not a fan of playing matches indoors because of the sun.<\/p>\n

He explained: “I think it shouldn’t close the roof because we will play in outdoor tournament. So the roof is just because if we can’t play in another way.<\/p>\n

“I think battling the heat, the hot, I think is one of the things that we have to do. Probably the match can’t be in a way, in another way, because of the hot. I think we have to deal with it in the best way possible.<\/p>\n

“Obviously for the fan, and even here in London, they are not used to having this weather. Sitting five hours in the stand without moving, the sun hitting, I think could be really difficult to deal with for the spectators.<\/p>\n

“But we are playing outdoor tournament, so I think that the roof shouldn’t be closed because of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John McEnroe fears “something serious” will happen on court after players struggled with the blistering heat on the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[15864,25095,25096,62,1464,67,132,68,2071,25094],"class_list":{"0":"post-29309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-john-mcenroe","9":"tag-player-health-concerns","10":"tag-roof-closure-debate","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wimbledon","17":"tag-wimbledon-heat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114776884085910558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29309","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=29309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}