Jannik Sinner threw everything he had into the battle, but after baking for two and a half hours inside Shanghai’s stadium sauna, his body surrendered. Even near midnight, the air was thick, suffocating, and merciless. Cramping, gasping, and staggering in pain, Sinner could barely walk through the final 20 minutes against Tallon Griekspoor. That brutal scene echoed across the tournament, Terence Atmane and Hamad Medjedovic both retired under the same punishing heat, while Francisco Comesaña nearly collapsed before Lorenzo Musetti came to his aid. And now, as Novak Djokovic grinds through another Shanghai Masters semis, the defending titan faces a cruel twist of fate as he now suffers a new injury in a grueling Shanghai clash.

Midway through the Shanghai semifinal, Novak Djokovic f

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