Sonmez shouldn’t be the primary participant to be injured due to the tight house behind the Roland Garros baselines.
The Paris heatwave has produced firmer, bouncier courts, that means gamers need to stand additional behind the baseline to obtain serve.
Belgium’s Alexander Blockx was pressured to withdraw from the lads’s singles earlier this week after spraining his proper ankle when he landed on a tarpaulin rain cowl on the Jean Bouin apply facility, a brief stroll from Roland Garros.
Blockx stated on social media he “heard a snap” in his ankle and sarcastically blamed the “actually essential” covers.
The world quantity 37 later edited his put up to take away the reference to the covers.
In addition to sponsorship boards and covers, there has additionally been one other impediment on Roland Garros’ smaller out of doors courts – line judges.
The French Open is the one main event that also has line judges.
Each ATP and WTA Excursions use digital line calling and Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo says it’s “very powerful” for the gamers to regulate to.
Cerundolo beat Britain’s Jacob Fearnley on a smaller court docket, the place line judges needed to nimbly transfer out of his manner, earlier than knocking out high seed Jannik Sinner on Courtroom Philippe Chatrier.
“It’s bizarre to play with line judges – particularly on the shorter courts,” Cerundolo advised BBC Sport.
“I performed all my life with line judges however now during the last 12 months we performed with out them so it is extremely completely different.
“You need to be able to not hit them and say ‘please return and transfer to the facet’. You need to adapt once more.”
