Connected complete metric spaces with more than one point.

Question

Does every connected complete metric space with more than one point have infinitely many closed balls? And is any closed ball in a connected complete metric space connected?

Answer 1

1. Yes. Take distinct points $a,b\in X$. For $0<r<d_X(a,b)$ there is a point $c\in X$ such that $d(a,c)=r$; indeed, otherwise $X$ would be the union of disjoint open sets $\{x:d(a,x)<r\}$ and $\{x:d(a,x)> r\}$. Therefore, all closed balls $\{x:d(a,x)\le r\}$, $0<r<d_X(a,b)$ are distinct sets.

2. No. An example was given in comments. For another example, remove the open rectangle $(-10,10)\times (0,1)$ from $\mathbb R^2$; keep the metric the same. The closed ball of radius $2$ centered at $(0,0)$ is not connected.

By the way, completeness was not used in the proof of 1.