Temperatures during the opening rounds of the 2025 French Open fell in the 60°F range, but the tournament is occurring during a Europe-wide spring heat wave. France, the UK, Spain, and Germany recorded May record highs as a heat dome intensified conditions. France’s daily highs reached the 90s, with hotter-than-average temperatures extending into July. Casper Ruud, after a four-hour win over Roman Safiullin, reported heatstroke-like symptoms, dizziness, extreme fatigue, and multiple medical breaks using cooling towels. Jakub Menšík collapsed after a nearly five-hour win over Mariano Navone, requiring ice packs and a wheelchair for removal from the court, and later said his body “just turned off.”
"“It felt like it was a bit of a kind of heatstroke feeling,” Ruud explained. “I experienced something similar some years ago when I played in Washington DC and I had to retire in the third set... that's the only time I had that same feeling as I had today in the fourth set where I felt at times really dizzy, really tired and walking around like a zombie almost.”"
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