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Rain, rain, go away: French Open players deal with the stress of schedule-changing showers
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On a day where the weather was different from the illustration on the poster, tennis fans shield themselves from the rain which interrupted the majority of the second round matches of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. - photo by AP Photo/Christophe Ena
PARIS (AP) — For 2021 U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez, the biggest question at this rainy-as-can-be French Open was: Should I eat a full lunch or just have a tiny snack? Her second-round match, like many others, was being delayed by heavy showers, and she couldn't possibly know when it would resume. Turned out the 31st-seeded Canadian didn't get back on court later that day at all, so her coach made the right call by telling her to go ahead and have a plate of pasta — along with some croissants, a banana and an orange.