Donna Vekic, a 26-year-old from Croatia who made Wimbledon’s semifinals in July and earned a silver medal at the Summer Games this month, only nods off if she feels “absolutely dead,” she said, because, “If I nap, I just wake up in a bad mood.”
Zzzzz: U.S. Open tennis players take naps before matches, especially late ones
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I personally thought the umpire made a good decision, because the call came quite late,” Vekic said when asked afterward about what happened.
Coco Gauff loses argument with chair umpire, match to Donna Vekic at Paris Olympics
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