French Open Tennis players say nasal strips are not just for snoring

Paris – If more tennis players think themselves are easier to breathe, it can only thank Carlos Alcaraj.

The four-time Grand Slam champion, whose second French Open, was supposed to continue the third round match, often wearing a nasal strip in matches since last season-even though it was not time for his first two competition in Rolland-Garros-and other athletes took notes this week.

After all, if Alkaraj finds something useful in the court, their thoughts go, but to shot the adhesive bands are understandable.

“I saw Carlos play in it,” Last year a semifinalist from Paris and now No. The female seeds of the number were 18 years old Mirra Andreva. “I would be interested in trying to try and to see if there is really a difference. If he played the match in it, there is probably there.”

In the ATP final, which was ended last November 2021, Alkaraj said: “This is something I am going to wear. I can get better healthy in the points.”

Once upon a time, the Pro football is associated with Soccer stars like Jerry Rice and Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar, which mainly looks like band-aid on the nose bridge, popped up in the tennis court-sometimes out of need, sometimes out of curiosity.

They make it easier to breathe through the nose, designed to open the nose somewhat. Basically marketing to reduce snails, they are being embraced to increase air intake during physical exertion.

The idea is simple: better breathing means getting better oxygen.

In practice, science is less credible.

In 2021, the Brazilian Academic Ricardo Dinardi reviewed more than 600 studies on the nasal strips and found that they did not make the real difference in how much air athletes had taken, their heart rate or how hard practices were felt.

“The impact of athletic performance is mostly placebo,” said Dinardi. “But in elite sports, even the perceived benefits can be calculated.”

The three -time final Casper Rud, wearing strips in matches earlier this year, is the proofs. But he still liked to use them – both in court and while sleeping. Like Alkaraj, Rud has not worn in Paris before the departure of his second round.

However, he is examining a prototype of a different version.

“I tried a device that was very early in development. It would feel a bit comfortable to wear, because it was inside the nose and it looks like I was underneath my bullying,” Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovich said Rollland-Garos’s runner-up to Rolland Garos. “It won’t come back, don’t worry.”

For other players such as Nicole’s issues, strips are more than a trend – these are a requirement. After nasal surgery in 2021, Chile still needs to help draw air in his nose, so he puts them for each practice and every match.

“Without it, I can’t breathe. I stopped my nose off my nose while trying,” he said inhale to display for a reporter. “Don’t have that problem with others and use them still.”

Zari certainly noticed the recent spike of interest among the players. He said that although he had been wearing strips for several years, including this French Open, other competitors never asked about them – until Alkaraj started wearing one last year, sometimes in black, sometimes in pink.

“Others have asked me, and many are trying it,” Jaga said, who created a beige color strip in Paris. “But before that? Nothing.”

2024 US Open Runner-Up Jessica Pugulla is tempted to try.

In the third round, the 2021 Wimbledon champion marketer Vandrosova will play Vondrosova, “I have a horrible deviation septum. I can’t really breathe on one side of my nose.” “Maybe I should start wearing a.”

He acknowledged, though, the aesthetic aspect could be a deals-breaker.

“I don’t know,” Peigha laughed and said, “If I have confidence to make a rock.”