From the “global warming is the universal boogeyman” department. h/t to Charles Rotter
Roger Federer Is Tough to Beat. Global Warming Might Have Pulled an Upset.
Roger Federer, one of the world’s greatest tennis players, may have become an unwitting spokesman for the effects of climate change on Monday at the U.S. Open.
Federer, who is ranked No. 2, seemed to struggle all night in the heat and humidity at Arthur Ashe Stadium, losing in a fourth-round upset to John Millman, an Australian ranked 55th.
“It was hot,” Federer said. It “was just one of those nights where I guess I felt I couldn’t get air; there was no circulation at all.”
This was the first time Federer, who won the U.S. Open five consecutive times from 2004 to 2008, lost to a player outside the top 50 at the tournament.
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While daytime temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) have been a persistent problem at this U.S. Open, forcing officials to offer players heat breaks and suspend junior matches, conditions Monday night were not much cooler. Temperatures hovered in the mid-80s, with the humidity for much of the match above 70 percent.
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It couldn’t be that he had a bad day, was off his game, wasn’t conditioned well for the temperature, or his age at 37 years old, or that Millman at 29 years old was just better that day….nooooo, it HAD to be global warming wot dun it.
The stupid, it burns.
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Wasn’t it just as hot for Milman? What am i missing?
Just another in the list of benefits of global warming – increased greening of the planet, bumper crop yields, and John Millman’s win over Roger Federer.
To a climate believer only the best athletes get affected it’s like only iconic animals will be affected they just won’t be able to adapt. You just have to be true believer you can’t apply logic.
Not in the last 3 sets, you see he’s from Australia and it’s Spring there.
Millman is from Brisbane, average day time temp is mid 80s(F) for 3-5 months a year and humidity for those months is seldom less than 65%. He is conditioned to higher temps and humidity.
There are a lot of people already saying Grand Slam matches should not be played in these conditions (regardless of the cause of the conditions) as it can take the edge away from the better player if the lesser player is conditioned better. They don’t want lesser players outlasting their opponent instead of beating them. I watched a large portion of that match and there was definitely an element of this, but I am of the opinion the weather conditions are a part of all sports and you have to beat them as well as your opponent.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying global warming beat Federer, I am saying the conditions helped Millman.
I can’t see many sportsmen & sportswomen blaming the weather on a poor performance, the overwhelming majority of these sports people would simply say the better man/woman/team beat me/us on the day!
But Federer said little in his press conference along those lines, and when asked how Millman could beat Djokovic, he finished with “and hope for another hot day.” I know it may sound obvious coming from an Aussie, but I was really disappointed in Federer’s press conference, he really didn’t credit Millman enough for the effort he put into that game and the control he wrestled from Federer. All he kept saying was – it was hot… That may have been partially due to the questions asked too.
Doesn’t your brain dysfunction and freeze in high temp?
Automatism are OK, but when it comes to putting different things together, ordering stuff, elaborate thinking… it gets fuzzy.
It’s also a way to determine what requires high brain power: overheat and see when you freeze.
And the fact that Federer is 37yo had nothing to do with it.
Federer has beaten many players a lot younger than him. He was just having a bad day. Happens to a lot of sportspeople.
Along with the age difference.
Being prepared for the weather is part of getting ready for a match.
If the lower ranked player did a better job of getting ready, then he deserves the win.
Conditioning is a major part of being the better player! You can’t claim to be a better player if you fade at the end of the game. Ever notice how the best players and teams often win with strong performances at the end of the matches or games That’s because the better players are in better shape. Anyone who says they don’t want conditioning or stamina to decide games or matches is perverting sports.
CO2 only affects “seeded” players. It is a green thing!
I get it now.
Cool, KAT. Very cool.
Because global warming doesn’t affect all areas in the same way, Federer might have experienced global warming while Millman did not.
That’s the weather most of the time here in Texas in summer. Out of condition? or just a bit old?
You’re #2 in the world – until you aren’t.
I expect all genuine climate scientists to get on line and ridicule the idiot author who clearly has no claim to being a journalist. The editor in chief should give this cretin a few weeks off to contemplate his future
If a genuine climate scientist went on line to point out that this was weather and not climate change he would be sacked. Which is why none of them will….
Don’t bank on it, the taxpayer funded cheque/check still must gon intothe account at the end ofthe month! 😉
NYT blames Federer’s U.S. Open loss on…’global warming’
Here I thought it was the phase of the moon.
Funny. His opponent DID WIN.
So, I guess Federer’s US Open opponent played somewhere else that day. When he won the US Open.
Maybe it was his tampon that was bothering him? Or his feminine hygiene spray failed?
Or his menstrual cramps flared up?
Or maybe, just maybe, he just is getting older and the young bucks have finally caught him?
Who knows?
New balls please
I wish I could find the quote but IIRC, Bill Clinton once joked that Al Gore would blame the sunrise on global warming.
In her book “What Happened?”, Hillary listed 16 different reasons she lost to Trump.
Global warming makes 17.
if the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like nails and if your mind is fully occupied by climate holocaust every problem looks like climate holocaust.
incidentally, this is exactly how superstition driven confirmation bias works.
EXACTLY
please see the Nickerson citation in my superstition post.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/08/03/the-sorcery-killings-of-melanesia/
if you have an interest in the phenomenon of confirmation bias you might want to read the Nickerson paper. Very relevant to climate hype and climate fear particularly as it relates to extreme weather and event attribution science.
But then there is this from Australia;
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/tennis/extreme-heat-hits-australian-open-as-melbourne-swelters-to-near-40-degree-temperatures/news-story/6ec7a3d0ff1acbeeb1b5efa20ae8c096
John Millman comes from Brisbane and so he knows that hotter and wetter are better.
Apparently the Australian was… acclimatised?
When it’s too hot or wet in Melbourne, the Australian Open moves indoors.
Not so the US.
The aged, injury-plagued Federer, wizard of Wimbledon, won the Oz Open in January, for his 20th Grand Slam singles victory, extending his world record. He won two last year, ending a four-year GS drought (2013-16).
A younger, fitter Federer would have survived the heat and humidity.
But today;s high of 90 F was far from a record for New York. The hottest September day in NYC was in 1953, when on the 2nd, it reached 102 F. Don’t have the humidity figures. So the problem was WX, not climate change.
PS: Federer is not yet quite as old as the oldest man ever to win a Grand Slam singles title. That would be Ken Rosewall, who won the 1972 Australian Open, aged 37 years and 63 days.
According to the infallible Wiki, Federer turned 37 on 8 August.
I see that Arthur Ashe Stadium now has a retractable roof, so that the Melbourne solution to bad WX is an option in Flushing Meadows as well.
But on Tuesday it remained open. It could however have affected air circulation, heat and humidity.
Is Ashe not air conditioned? If not, why not?
I don’t get it.
So by how many degrees was that date’s previous record broken? What, wait, it was cooler than the all-time record? Oh. Then “Global Cooling Delivered An Upset At The US Open.”
brians356
I see what you did there.
Cunning, I like it. 🙂
Sooo, he won the first set, and lost the next 3 in OT, if you will, and it is a climate problem. Nothing to do with age and fitness. LOL
http://www.tennis.com/scores/players/944/john-millman/vs/376/roger-federer/2018-09-03/match/2877876/
Next up, Nadal losing the first set tonight 6-0 is due to Federer’s excess 40,000 PPM CO2 residue at courtside!
Tennis is climate now!
Got to “Love” it.
Rafa managed to win his match in a final set tiebreak decision. Both he and Dominic looked like they had played the match underneath the sea. Perhaps Fed would have them move the tournament to low humidity southwestern states AZ or CA.
Does it mean that we can now read past temperature in sport results?
I played tennis in 40C (104F) with my father and brothers in Spokane, Washington around the year of Spokane’s Expo 74. We survived and are all still alive today.
I suppose you remember when the balls were a different color then.
I recall it as the first “environmentally-themed” World’s Fair.
I didn’t notice the environmental theme at the time when I was a kid. Looking through the official guide recently, I was very surprised to see so much reference to environmental themes. No climate change or global warming mentions back then.
I could scan the guide and make it available if anyone is interested, let me know in the comments.
That was when global cooling was all the rage. Also blamed upon humans, with more justification than global warming now, since real pollution from industrialization did block sunlight in the developed world. Cleaned up air since the ’70s is now however being undone by China and India.
garymount
It was global cooling back then.
Who needs personal responsibility when you have global warming? But that’s the real point of all this, isn’t it.
There appears to be a notion among the stupid, that if you weave multiple layers of stupidity together in a complex, interconnected, non-linear fashion, that you can appear to be intelligent. This, of course, is a very stupid notion!
Clearly Millman’s end of the court was in a cooler part of the Globe.
I guess those conditions never happened before.
100% Of US Warming Is Due To NOAA Data Tampering
https://realclimatescience.com/100-of-us-warming-is-due-to-noaa-data-tampering/
Ah c’mon NOAA measured a global average in 1850. Be serial!
Federer -“Federer believes the decision to build a roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium contributed to his problems.
The roof was open Monday, but the space above the cavernous arena has been reduced by the wings which help support the structure.
“I do believe since the roof is on that there is no air circulation in the stadium. I think just that makes it a totally different US Open,” said the world number two.”
https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/tennis/federer-i-struggled-to-breathe-in-shock-us-open-loss/ar-BBMQUyr?li=AAgfYrC&ocid=ACERDHP15
His tennis was certainly number two on that day.
Perhaps shift the US Open to Svarlbad or Macquarie Island for those tennis players who don’t like it hot, unlike some….[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/some_like_it_hot/]
Of course, it has nothing to do with a tennis player getting older, and older, and older.
Then, not sleeping, another age related complaint; takes additional toll on the physical body.
“Roger Federer” – age 37.
“John Millman” – age 29.
Enough failure to sleep at night and Billie Jean King has a chance.
Other than the fact that Federar at 37 is well past the average tennis players age, it is a very physical game, New York with all of its buildings generates a lot of heat.
He will be back at his usual world rate next match.
MJE
As you’ve highlighted, Federer may be pretty fit fella at 37, but younger fit 29 year old beat him, Federer couldn’t cope with the heat & humidity, & simply wasn’t the best player on court that day, well done Millman!
This is a red rag to an Old Bull, me, as an Australian Tennis Fan living in Brisbane.
Rod Laver defeated Tony Roche in the 1969 Australian Open Semi-final at Milton, Brisbane, 7-5,22-20, 9-11,1-6, 6-3 in a match lasting over 4 hours in 105 degrees F.heat.
It was the longest match-90 games- Laver ever played, and is regarded as being among the greatest tennis matches ever.
Both players put cabbage leaves in their hats to keep cool .Laver took salt pills and glucose but ended up groggy.They had wet towels in the ice box to little effect.
Interestingly, the Swiss Master, Roger Federer knows of this saga as a great fan of Laver.
I recall little mention of global warming in Brisbane in 1969 when world temperatures were cooling (1940-1976).
At the 1969 Oz Open, Rod Laver was 30. Tony Roche was 23.
“….cabbage leaves in their hats to keep cool”
It was so hot that the birds were flying backwards to keep their ar$es cool!!
Thanks for the bit of history, Herbert. Of course it wasn’t as hot, but to add, Isner had the 72-70 final set at Wimbledon. I think that wrecked his body for the entire season that year….
Since this warming comes after the 2000-2016 (or so) pause, should we call this new period the global tie break?
Global Warming! and I thought it was the bloke at the other end of the court.
It is clearly unsatisfactory that Tennis isn’t played on the Antarctic ice which would give ethnic minorities like the Inuit a level playing field to win instead of being oppressed by sweaty Europeans responsible for CO2 raising the temperature of the planet in the first place and imposing their deeply racist agenda to deny native peoples lucrative rewards for meaningless if entertaining activities.
Of course their might be an issue about white court lines and balls.
Moderately Cross..
“…It is clearly unsatisfactory that Tennis isn’t played on the Antarctic ice which would give ethnic minorities like the Inuit a level playing field..”
I once played a tournament in an armoury on wood.. I wouldn’t recommend trying to play on polished ice!
cheers
Use carbon-black for the lines. Oh wait, not CARBON….