The massive power failure in large parts of Spain has also affected the action at the tennis tournament in Madrid. All men and women’s games were interrupted for a long time on Monday.
The game of the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrow against the British Jacob Fearnley had to be interrupted at 6: 4, 5: 4. The rope camera, the so -called Spider Cam, got stuck directly above the Center Court. In addition, the electronic line calling no longer worked: There are no linesquarters at the Masters 1000 tournament, but it is electronically checked whether a ball is in the field or not. “We have no electricity at all. The system has stopped and everything has to pause,” said referee Adel Nour on the Center Court.
Microphone fails during an interview
The American Coco Gauff also felt the effects. The 21-year-old was just interviewed after her success against Belinda Bencic from Switzerland when the microphone no longer worked because of the power failure. According to the men’s organization ATP, two singles and one double ran at the time of the power failure.
The scoreboard at the Madrid Open that does not work due to the power failure
The Nachtrichtagentur AFP reports on a “massive” blackout in large parts of the country as well as in parts of Portugal and France, which, among other things, paralyzed complete rail traffic in some regions.
Measures to gradually restore the power supply have now been initiated by the responsible authorities. Spain’s state power grid operator Red Electrica announced on X that he had managed to restore the power supply in the north and south of the country.