Quote of the Day: Daniil Medvedev warns "one player is going to die" in brutal US Open conditions

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NEW YORK—Playing through conditions that both players described as “brutal”, Daniil Medvedev outlasted good friend Andrey Rublev in three sets at the US Open on Wednesday.

For the second day in a row, the roof was partially closed on Arthur Ashe Stadium in order to give fans more shade, as the thermostat listed the ‘feels like’ temperatures at 99 F (37 C) and the humidity levels topped 50 percent.

But it hardly provided any relief for the players on court, as Medvedev and Rublev both struggled in the heat. After one particularly tough exchange, Medvedev turned to an on-court camera to issue a dire warning: “One player is gonna die. And they’re gonna see.”

He needed two hours and 48 minutes to close out the 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory, and appeared more than relieved that the match didn’t go the distance—especially with Rublev taking the lead multiple times in their eighth career meeting.

“I don't think I had anything left, but if the match would go on I would find something more,” Medvedev said in a post-match press conference. “And the only thing that is a little bit, let's call it dangerous, is that the question is how far could we go?”

Over an hour after the end of the match, Medvedev described still feeling “a little bit shaky” while doing his recovery and media obligations:

Q. What did you do from the time you left the court until now in order to try and start to feel normal? Can you talk through your routine, what did you eat, what did you drink, how much, things like that?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: Yeah, it's true that I'm feeling kind of okay now. I'm just pretty exhausted… Do a couple of interviews here and there straightaway, and it was tough. I was with an ice towel there. Everything was foggy, I couldn't see clearly. Because the match is over, so the adrenaline is not there anymore.

I was a little bit shaky. Then I come to the locker room and that's the toughest part, because you kind of want to just sit there for hours. But you know that if you do it, it's not a good recovery.

So I sat there for, like, 10, 15 minutes, went and did a quick ice bath. Changed. Went to eat. But had—I don't know how you call it in English—when blood sugar levels go up. I started sweating, my head started turning.

I said to my team, Please bring me any food. I was sitting there sweating like hell even with the AC on, and they brought some food and then I felt better. Yeah, that's how it is sometimes.

Medvedev had to do everything possible to keep cool during the match, too. He was once again seen asking the physio for an inhaler as he struggled to breathe in the heavy conditions. In between using the portable AC hose and taking in plenty of fluids, the Russian says he actually rubbed his face raw due to how often he had to wipe the sweat off his face.

“Because we are sweating so much and use a lot of towels, I have no skin left on my nose here, and, like, here it's red,” he said, pointing to different parts of his face, “But it's not because of the sun, so it's not like you're burned but I have no skin left…

“That tells everything, like we left everything out there.”

No. 3 seed Medvedev moved back into the US Open semifinals, where he awaits the winner of Carlos Alcaraz, the defending champion, and Alexander Zverev, the 2020 finalist, on Friday.