Paul Feinbaum
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442 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 14 Sep
Paul Feinbaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I guess it's the equivalent of straining your ankle or twisting your knee with a 5-1 lead, but there was none of that.
It was internal and the body breaking down.
I think there's probably much more to the story, Tony, than we know.
You may remember Pete Sampras.
Of course, you know Sampras, but Sampras only revealed late in his career that he had
thalassemia, which is that blood disorder that really hurt his endurance.
And Pete suffered in these heat-oriented matches and suffered a lot.
And nobody ever understood quite why and only became clear later.
I'm not speculating the center has the same thing, but it could well be a problem like that, that he's struggling to control and understand.
So I think it looked like it was the heat, which he said was not the main factor, but it may be something else with just pure endurance or being ill or whatever.
But
It was an unbelievable situation to watch in slow motion crash, basically.
Yeah, I think tennis needs to make a long look at this again.
They've looked at it recently.
I mean, there didn't used to be any limits on, you know, when they would close a roof or when they would, you know, keep playing the match.
I remember when I covered the Australian Open the first time in 93, Jim Currier, Ed Berg in the final, they came off the court and you could smell the burning rubber on the player's shoes.
I mean, it was just so, so hot.
And it was almost a situation where they felt like, you know, that was part of the game to
push your endurance and part of conditioning but it's happening so often in so many places now i think knowledge about the science of it has changed and there is a policy in place here you know but maybe they need to revise it and go you know a little bit more uh on the conservative side because you don't want to see players at risk like that and the other issue is there's still no allowance for cramping
because it's considered a conditioning problem.
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