Dr Stephen Jasper has studied the impact of fatigue and jet lag on elite performance, and says it can take weeks to recover from the late finishes endured at this Australian Open.
With a spot in the Australian Open quarter-finals secured for the first time since 2016 early on Monday morning, dual-champion Victoria Azarenka began preparing for mission improbable.
“They are borrowing from tomorrow to deal with today. They can recover, but it might take a few days or even weeks to properly recover,” he said. “Long matches can happen. But … I’m sure if you went and spoke to some sleep experts and sports scientists, etcetera … they would tell you that sleep is the number one thing, that that’s the most important thing,” Murray said.
“Police, firefighters, medical professionals, industrial workers such as miners, there is an increase of mistakes when people are doing things late at night. “If the players don’t like it, the tournament has to have a conversation with the players and make it better, but for me it was a great memory and I love being part of that moment.”
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