Professional tennis takes a lot of exertion. Normally, this isn’t a problem for the players because they are at peak fitness levels.<\/p>\n
But sometimes even top athletes get sick.<\/p>\n
And that’s just what happened to one professional tennis player in the middle of a match.<\/p>\n
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It’s not that uncommon, as it turns out. However, this time it was German tennis pro Alexander\u00a0Zverev’s turn to throw up during a match.<\/p>\n
According to ESPN,<\/a> the incident occurred at the Halle Open on June 20.<\/p>\n He “requested a toilet break to throw up and bolted down the tunnel” and did not look well at first when he returned, gasping and “bending over in exhaustion,” ESPN reported.<\/p>\n “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,” he said later, ESPN reported, adding that he ended up winning the match.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n However, he’s not the first player to vomit during a match – not by a longshot.<\/p>\n Frances Tiafoe “threw up during his first-round match at the Australian Open” in 2025, but he went on to win his match, according to NBC.<\/a> He blamed it on being overly hydrated.<\/p>\n Then there’s Jack Draper. In 2024, the British player “vomited several times on the court during play,” during the U.S. Open, the\u00a0Bergen Record reported.<\/a><\/p>\n In May, tennis player Peyton Stearns threw up <\/a>at the Italian Open while playing against Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n In 2024,\u00a0Tomas Etcheverry threw up<\/a> on court during a professional tennis match at the U.S. Open. So, yes, its happened a lot.<\/p>\n Related: Jannik Sinner’s Ex-Girlfriend Is a Tennis Star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n