Baking on the clay: How players are feeling the heat in a French Open furnace

Jannik Sinner has blamed illness rather than high temperatures for his shocking exit while the locker room is divided over the weather at Roland GarrosJannik Sinner, the No 1 mens tennis player in the world, was still leading by two sets and serving for a place in the third round of the French Open when it became clear he was in significant danger on the baking clay in Paris on Thursday afternoon. He was undone in the second round of the only Grand Slam he has yet to win, not by the ingenuity of...