Energy outage in Spain results in play being halted at Madrid Open
Apr 28, 2025 09:49 PM IST
Play has been cancelled on the Madrid Open for the remainder of the day following an enormous energy lower in Spain
Play has been cancelled on the Madrid Open for the remainder of the day following an enormous energy lower in Spain and neighbouring Portugal, match organisers introduced Monday.
An influence lower affecting “the entire of the Iberian peninsula and a part of France”, in accordance with Portuguese electrical energy community operator REN, halted matches shortly after 10.30am GMT, earlier than Madrid Open organisers known as off the remainder of the day’s motion 4 hours later.
“For causes past the management of the organisation and so as to assure basic security, the nationwide power-cut skilled in Spain on Monday 28 April has compelled the cancellation of each the day and evening classes on the Madrid Open,” the match introduced on social media.
Solely three matches had been accomplished on Monday earlier than the outage.
Ladies’s world quantity 4 Coco Gauff beat Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6-2 within the final 16 and teenage sensation Mirra Andreeva additionally progressed to the quarter-finals, beating Yuliia Starodubtseva 6-1, 6-4.
Matteo Arnaldi, who knocked out Novak Djokovic on Saturday, reached the spherical of 16 with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Damir Dzumhur.
Elsewhere, the match between Grigor Dimitrov and Jacob Fearnley was suspended when the Bulgarian fifteenth seed was main 6-4, 5-4 along with his opponent serving to remain within the match.
Among the many matches initially scheduled for Monday and now postponed till Tuesday are the final 16 matches of girls’s world numbers one and two, Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek, who had been as a consequence of tackle Peyton Stearns and Diana Shnaider, respectively.
