A tennis player carries a ball boy off the court in his arms

Heat waves are ravaging half the world this summer, and tennis is not being left out of its consequences.

The last example is found in The Lexington Challenger Tournament is held in Kentuckyone of the southern states of the United States.

Juncheng Shang and Stefan Dostanic faced each other in the first round match early in the third set one of the ball boys begins to feel sick, a victim of heat stroke.

Shang’s reaction, ranked number 344 and trained by Marcelo Ríos, could not have been quicker or more applaudable. When he turned around and saw the young man struggling to stand, He put his racket on the ground and went to him to ask how he was doing.

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Seeing that I needed help he didn’t hesitate to pick her up to take her to the players’ refreshment areawhere besides the shade there are bottles of water to cool.

Fortunately, the ball boy recovered and the game resumed, with a final victory for the ‘hero’ of the day 6-0, 4-6, 6-3. Already in the round of 16, Juncheng Shang defeated Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6, 6-3 and the pass to the semifinals will be played this Friday against Russian Roman Safiullin, first seeded in the tournament.