Greek tennis player Maria Sakkari complained about the smell on the court during the first round match of the US Open. During the match, he told the referee: “The smell… my God… It’s like it’s coming from the park. Because we trained here yesterday; was the same.”
“It was hemp. The smell did not impress me at all. It has nothing to do with the match. I also felt this smell at training yesterday. We can’t control it, this is an open park and people can do whatever they want here. You don’t think about it, all you care about is winning the match. “I didn’t pay much attention to the smell,” Sakkari said at the post-match press conference.
Sakkari’s match with Spaniard Rebeka Masarova ended with the Greeks losing 4:6 and 4:6.
The two Russians have already left the tournament in the USA. In the first round, Kamilla Rakhimova lost to Belinda Bencic of Switzerland and Veronika Kudermetova lost to the American Bernard Pere.
Formerly the second racket in the world statedRublev’s victory is expected at the start of the US Open.