CNN —With a bird’s eye view from his chair, umpire Damien Dumusois spotted a poorly pigeon on Court Suzanne-Lenglen and flew into action.
Pictures show Dumusois picking up the bird with a towel during the third-round match, which Medvedev won under the roof on a rain-hit day to reach the last 16.
“I hope the bird was okay, it was not looking good,” Medvedev told reporters afterwards.
He was very gentle, I think important, and I hope the bird is fine and they take it to the vet clinic.
I don’t know, we need to ask what happened after.”The pigeon was caught with the help of a towel.
Persons:
Damien Dumusois, Suzanne, Lenglen, Daniil Medvedev, Tomas Machac, Medvedev, ” Medvedev, “, Lisi Niesner, Susan Mullane, Alex de Minaur
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