The unusual reason that forced to suspend the matches in Madrid Open

ByDavid Mitchell
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The action of this Monday in the Madrid Open 2025 suffered an unusual moment: The two games that were playing should have been suspended due to lack of electricity in the Spanish 1000 Masters. It should be clarified that this problem was not only in the tournament, but in all of Spain, France and Portugal.

After the triumphs of Coco Gauff (4th of the world ranking) by Belinda Bencic (42 °) and Mirra Andreeva (7th) before Yuliia Starodubtseva (99 °), both in Sets Corridos, The prestigious brick powder contest was affected by the light cutting.

This fact prevented the camera that is hanging in the middle of the court can be removed. In this way, the matches between Grigor Dimitrov (16 °) and Jacob Fearnley (68 °) and Matteo Arnaldi (44 °) with Damir Dzumhur (63 °) had to stop momentarily.

In the first of these, the Bulgarian was 6-5 and 5-4 above, but with Fearnley’s serve. Grigor served to keep the match, even had a match point when his rival was serving 2-5. On the other, Arnaldi was 6-3, 3-2 and taking 40-40.

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David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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