‘Do you want a player to die on court?’ – Tennis stars wilt in China heat | Tennis News

Novak Djokovic threw up, Alexander Zverev poured sweat out of his shoe, and Emma Raducanu quit her match with dizziness – and the bad news for the world’s top tennis players is that more baking weather awaits them in China this week.

Denmark’s Holger Rune called the temperatures of more than 30C (86F) and humidity soaring past 80 percent at the Shanghai Masters “brutal”.

“Do you want a player to die on court?” Rune was heard asking…