“Younger guys are coming up fearless, blasting the ball, and turning every match into a war,” Marton Fucsovics warned back at Wimbledon 2025. And he couldn’t have been more right. Today’s young guns thrive on raw power and endless stamina, leaving the veterans gasping for air. Case in point? Day one of the Shanghai Masters. While players are fighting to push through the opening rounds, it’s not just their opponents they’re battling. The suffocating Shanghai heat is proving just as brutal, nearly wiping out the Hungarian warrior himself.

In the opening set, Jaume Munar seals it 6-4 with his trademark power and precision. But then the story flipped. Despite winter lurking around the corner, Shanghai decided to unleash one of its cruelest offseason heatwaves – 32 degrees Celsius, sweltering enough to drain even the toughest of athletes. As the temperature rose, Fucsovics’ grip on the match melted away.

Munar clawed back in the second set, and by the third, the Hungarian looked like he was running on fumes. Down 1-4, the unbearable conditions finally broke him. Fucsovics collapsed on the court, a brutal reminder of Shanghai’s heat. When the umpire came to check on the athlete, he had only one thing to say, “‘I am dying.” As the match ended, Fucsovics lost the game with a score of (6-4, 5-7, 1-6).

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