2023-12-31 12:48:22
The qualifying match for the main draw of the ATP tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia between the local James McCabe and the Austrian Dominic Thiem was passing through the normal lanes, it is already known that in that country tennis is followed with devotion, when something happened completely unusual: a 50 centimeter poisonous snake She appeared in a side sector very close to the public, and so the security personnel had to improvise a way to capture her, urgently summoning a specialist who took her away in a bag following almost 40 minutes.
The particular scene remained as an extra ingredient of the tournament that marks the return to tennis of the super champion Rafael Nadal, following a year away from the courts due to injuries, and is the previous step to the Australian Open, which like every year will launch the “top of the range” of tennis of each season under the burning Australian January.
The Australian James McCabe had just won the first set once morest the Austrian Dominic Thiem when the viper slid down the side of the court, in front of the shocked spectators. There was even some panic among the closest attendees, while others who were more curious – and despite the risk – came closer to see the particular “spectator.”
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The tournament organizers immediately called someone with experience handling reptiles, who eventually captured the snake viper and it was later indicated that it was a ‘pseudonaja textilis’, extremely venomous species, whose bites cause “progressive paralysis and uncontrollable bleeding”, according to the Australian Museum website. It should be noted that Australia, in its enormous geographical diversity, is home to 20 of the 25 most venomous snake species in the world.
The match resumed and continued normally and the Austrian saved three match points once morest McCabe, a guest player, and took his first victory in Brisbane and the first of the season by 2-6, 7-6 (4) and 6-4 . With this victory, Thiem enters the final round of the qualifying phase and will be Rafa’s next opponent in his debut in the individual draw of the Australian tournament. Argentines Sebastián Báez and Tomás Etcheverry also participate in the tournament. The Brisbane ATP marks the start of the season and distributes $661,585 to the winner.
“I love animals, especially exotic ones,” Thiem said, but aware that it was a “very poisonous snake and that it was close to children,” he acknowledged that it was “a very dangerous situation.”
The snake
Its scientific name is ‘pseudonaja textilis’, although it is better known as a brown snake, in a clear allusion to the color of its skin. This species is native to Australia and is the second most poisonous in the world according to recent analysis. This animal can grow around one and a half meters, although specimens were found that reached two meters in length.
They are found along the entire eastern coast of Australia, from the tip of Cape York, along the coasts and inland ranges of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It is also found in arid areas of the Northern Territory, the Kimberley region of Western Australia3 and, in very limited numbers, in Papua New Guinea.
As highlighted, “it is a diurnal species and in circumstances of “danger” or when they are very agitated they are capable of supporting themselves and stretching up to more than half a meter with a single impulse. These attributes give it a marked dangerousness in hunting or defensive situations. After that stop, Thiem ended up winning 2-, 7-6 and 6-4, and on Tuesday he will be in the main draw of the tournament once morest none other than Rafael Nadal.
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