Sorry if I don't take his words for granted, doesn't mean he'd enter equally well into the match if it was decided for outdoors. But no matter, it has little to do with Marin.
Yes, I saw a pic from the match:
I guess he had some racquets strung for indoor conditions, but not for the actual temperature. he and his team obviously expected a higher indoor temperature.
Nothing implies they were worried about this. And this 'only' thing is really an important one.
But it's not just finals match. The current extreme heat policy seems to be too permitive and it doesn't spare players much. Potentially puts them to serious health risk.
Like I've read somewhere, like it's needed for something really serious to happen, for the organizer to change their policy to protect players more.
I get the notion that accomodating players is not the top priority for the organizer. But quite the opposite, it looks like being quite low on their priority list.
I understand organizers have their schedule as one of primary concerns, but it cannot jeopardize players health, by insist on playing in conditions under which part of players' organisms cannot function well.
But nothing unusual for modern times, it's happening in various sports, when organizers moslty care about making most money, and sportsmen are considered as an instrument to have this goal accomplished, rather than a primary reason for having such events.
Sign of the times. But don't expect of someone like me to approve such policy. I don't think there's a moral right to use sports just as business and players just as instruments for making money. And this happens to be so in many aspects of pro tennis, on various tournaments.
