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"It's very hot here, isn't it?" Asks a German journalist in the middle of the mixed zone and immediately afterwards she faints, and you have to hold her down, and a hundred volunteers appear -one upstairs, one down- to take her to the medical center in stretcher, a somewhat exaggerated protocol. It's very hot, certainly, but that's not the worst. The four drops of rain that typhoon Nepartak left in Tokyo the day before raised the percentage of humidity and that in Japan is saying a lot. Too.

The thermometer shows 33ºC, but the thermal sensation rises to 40 and the sun crushes, crushes, crushes without a cloud hiding it for a while. With the German journalist already conscious, indoors and with ice on her head, very red tennis players begin to appear before the microphones, each one more fatigued, each one more pissed off. It's noon and none of them understand what the hell he's doing here. All the participants unite in one voice to denounce the mistreatment by the organization of the Games: if they took the marathon and the march to cold Sapporo to avoid hot flashes, it is incomprehensible that tennis is being played in Tokyo Bay , on the hottest day of the year, and at the worst hours.

"There was a time when I started to see little black dots, I thought I was fainting. Between point and point I did not know what to do to lower my body temperature. I have complained to the judge, I have reminded him that if I died on the track he he would be responsible, "denounces the Russian

Daniil Medvedev

in a tone that later escalated. A journalist appoints the International Olympic Committee (IOC) veto to Russia for its doping cases, asks him if he sees it as a stigma and he ends up asking for his expulsion from the Games.

"It's the first time in my life that I don't answer a question! You should be ashamed! Get him out of here! Get him out of here!" He yells as he leaves for the locker room.

This Wednesday (10:00 am) he will be the rival of

Pablo Carreño

, the only Spaniard alive in the entire tournament, for a place in the semifinals and, if the tantrum continues, to see who stops him.

"They come with their sunglasses"

In addition to the expulsion of the editor, Medvedev demands a change from the organization, reschedule all the games at night, play at dawn if necessary, and in that he is not alone. Most of the tennis players who compete around noon ask for solutions and these appear already at night, after the suffocation. The organization of the Games announced then that, in the four days left, there will be no more morning sessions, that everything will be played in the afternoon. A logical decision after the experience.

"It is crazy that they force us to play at noon with 40ºC. I am very angry because it cannot be that three people who are in an office, with air conditioning, decide that we have to compete like this. They are sitting in their chairs and then they come to greet us when we finish, with their sunglasses. Here we are not playing tennis, we are looking to see who can hold out the longest. Today this seemed like

The Walking Dead

, criticizes the Argentine

Diego Schwartzman

after being eliminated and names the most serious case of the day , the case that took a good part of the Spanish medal options at the Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo: the fainting of

Paula Badosa

.

Suddenly a blackout. In the quarterfinals, Badosa dominates

Marketa Vondrousova

when, at the end of two long exchanges in a row, she melts. His subsequent serves are the slowest of his career and the one who sits on the bench no longer gets up. Call the medic to get back together and get back in the game, but there's no way. She can't even walk and, disoriented, without knowing where she is, ends up leaving the track in a wheelchair.

"It was a heat stroke. Suddenly he felt bad, he felt bad ... Now he is better, but he has a lot of headache. He has been with the doctors for an hour, drinking water, with ice to cool his body , then she has managed to take a shower and eat something and in the end she has been able to go to the Olympic Village. She is morally touched by what has happened because she had earned a very nice opportunity ", explains her coach

Javier Martí

when they have already passed 4:00 p.m. and the thermal sensation plummets. Then

Garbiñe Muguruza

plays

against the Kazakh

Elena Rybakina

and

Alejandro Davidovich

against

Novak Djokovic

and both lose to complete the Spanish black day on the court.

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