Carlos Alcaraz vomits into towel and asks camera to look away during US Open thriller

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Carlos Alcaraz vomited into a towel and motioned for a cameraman to look away before the fifth set of his marathon US Open match against Ben Shelton. Alcaraz returned to the court and kept fighting, but Shelton eventually won the deciding tie-break in a match that finished at a record 3:33 a.m

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00:01Carlos Alcaraz was pushed to his physical limit against Ben Shelton,

00:06even vomiting into a towel before the deciding set of their US Open thriller.

00:10As a cameraman continued filming, a visibly uncomfortable Alcaraz motioned for the camera to look away before getting sick.

00:33But after taking a moment to recover, the Spaniard somehow composed himself and returned to the court for the fifth

00:40set.

00:41Alcaraz kept fighting, but Shelton eventually closed out the nearly four-and-a-half-hour battle in a deciding tiebreak.

00:47The match ended at 3.33am, setting a new record for the latest finish in US Open history.

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