Alcaraz and Ruud, two men's tennis stars, reached the ATP 500 men's tennis singles finals in Rotterdam and Dallas last week.

Alcaraz

"I thought it would help me sleep, so I just wore it for a few days and thought, 'Okay, this sticks your nose and doesn't fall off.'" Second seed Ruud revealed that the nose band, bought from an online shop, seems to make it easier to breathe after beating Spanish opponent Munar in three sets in the Dallas quarterfinals, "I don't have any actual test data, but I feel great on the court for a while, and I can last longer." After all, the winter in my native Norway is very cold, and I used to wake up with a stuffy nose and blow my nose many times in the morning, but now it is much better. ”

Alcaraz, who also wore a black nose band, also won four consecutive victories to reach the final of Rotterdam for the first time in his career, and the 21-year-old Spanish top seed explained that the nose band was for the sake of health: "I had a cold at home and now I feel better day by day. I had some difficulties before, and I could only train for two days, and then I had to rest until the cold got better. ”