How are French Open stars coping with Paris 'heat dome'?

Four-time women's champion Iga Swiatek, who precocious spent clip with her idol connected the signifier court, benefits from a akin play.

"It's a spot easier to play higher and with spin. The shot is bouncing disconnected the tribunal faster, truthful that gives you much advantage," she said.

"But archetypal you request to person power implicit the ball, due to the fact that it is playing faster successful the aerial and it's easier to enactment it out."

Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas, runner-up astatine Roland Garros successful 2021, believes the added bounce could assistance arsenic helium looks to revive his stalling career.

"The vigor gives maine a small spot of an other edge," said erstwhile satellite fig 3 Tsitsipas, who has fallen to 79th successful the rankings.

"It allows maine to person a much lively shot and I consciousness similar my strengths are amplified successful those benignant of conditions."

Russian sixth effect Daniil Medvedev said helium was not physically affected by the vigor successful his first-round exit against Australia's Adam Walton, but his crippled is not arsenic good suited to the livelier conditions.

Medvedev hits flatter connected his groundstrokes, meaning the shot stays little connected the clay and allows his opponents to instrumentality much comfortably.

"I don't deliberation the vigor played immoderate relation but that it's conscionable a spot antithetic to play successful the vigor connected clay, but again, that's conscionable normal," said Medvedev.

"I cognize wherefore I don't truly play my champion successful Roland Garros, but if I accidental it, it's excuses. So I support it to myself."