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The sun martyrizes all the tennis players in Tokyo Bay, where Pablo Carreño spends disengaged after winning in the first hour - he is already in the quarterfinals - and is followed by

Daniil Medvedev

, also victorious, also undone.

"I'm exhausted, I don't know what I'm saying," the Spanish recognizes and the Russian goes further: "I was beginning to see little black dots. Between point and point I no longer knew what to do to lower the heat."

The Tokyo Olympics, which took the marathon and the athletic march to Sapporo to avoid scares, did not think that in tennis they would force dozens of athletes to compete at noon with a thermal sensation of 38 degrees and that that factor, only that , it could pervert the tournament. Paula Badosa was the biggest victim on Wednesday. After an excellent start against the Czech Marketa Vondrousova (1-3 in favor) she began to feel bad and was losing, she was losing, until at the end of that first set (6-3) she had to retire. Very cute, she barely moved around the court and, in her steps on the bench, she found no solution: neither drink water, nor throw it over her head, nor put an ice-cold towel over her ... Nothing.

In the end, she conceded that it was impossible to play and the volunteers took her to the changing rooms in a wheelchair accompanied by her coach,

Javier Martín

, and the captain of the Federation Cup,

Anabel Medina

.

The doctors treated him there and he tried to rebuild himself, although it will be difficult for him to play the mixed doubles with Carreño himself this afternoon - noon in Spain.

If he retires and there is no time to find a substitute, Spain will have lost two medals all at once because of the sun.

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