Many players are unusually tired at the 2023 US Open

In the second round on August 31, Dominic Thiem lost the first set 6-7 to host Ben Shelton. At the beginning of the second set, Thiem grimaced during the competition and was almost unable to return the hand. He was nauseous and had to call for medical attention. After consulting the doctor, the Austrian tennis player gave up. The 2020 champion is said to have vomited before the game.

A day earlier, tennis player Emil Ruusuvuori withdrew just before the match against Andrey Rublev in the first round because of illness. That same day, Christopher Eubanks felt tired from the third set against Benjamin Bonzi. When the score was 5-5 in the fourth set, the American tennis player asked the referee about asking to lose the game to go to the bathroom. As soon as the game ended, Eubanks ran out of the field. In the end, the tennis player who reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon 2023 lost to Bonzi after four sets.

On the same day, in the women's singles, the runner-up at Wimbledon 2023 Ons Jabeur continuously coughed and found it difficult to breathe in the match against Camila Osorio. After receiving medical care, Jabeur won 7-5, 7-6 to continue. "I had the flu so it wasn't easy," the Tunisian said after the match. "I tried to give up many times, but after each score, I kept trying."

Most recently, in the second round of women's singles, former Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova said she felt lacking energy during her loss to Caroline Wozniacki. Due to a series of health incidents among tennis players, fans and media suspect that a strange disease exists at the 2023 US Open. "It's not clear what's going on, players are falling like crazy." flies," one fan commented on social media.

The strange phenomenon at the US Open is believed to be related to John McEnroe. The former American tennis player, who won seven singles Grand Slams, tested positive for Covid-19 right before the tournament and had to withdraw from his commentary job at ESPN. The 64-year-old former tennis player attended the Stars of the Open performance event last week. Christopher Eubanks also attended this event along with several other American players.

According to reputable tennis journalist Ben Rotherberg, who is present at the Flushing Meadows complex at the US Open, signs of cough and flu are rampant in the waiting room as well as the press room at each match.