{"id":13778,"date":"2025-04-28T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/madrid-open-spanish-power-outage-stops-play-as-jacob-fearnley-forced-off-court\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:20:47","slug":"madrid-open-spanish-power-outage-stops-play-as-jacob-fearnley-forced-off-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/madrid-open-spanish-power-outage-stops-play-as-jacob-fearnley-forced-off-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid Open: Spanish power outage stops play as Jacob Fearnley forced off court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A national power outage stopped play at the Madrid Open, with Britain&#8217;s Jacob Fearnley among those forced off court.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fearnley had saved a match point in his third-round encounter against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and was about to serve to stay in the match at 6-4 5-4 down when play was suspended on the main court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The power cut meant the electronic line-calling system &#8211; which has replaced line judges &#8211; and scoreboards stopped working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a brief delay the umpire announced play would restart, with him making line calls in place of the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the spider camera which hangs low over the court had become stuck in place and was in the player&#8217;s eyelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After further discussion the umpire led the players back to the locker room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ckg50r01xxpo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national power outage stopped play at the Madrid Open, with Britain&#8217;s Jacob Fearnley among those forced off court. Fearnley had saved a match point in his third-round encounter against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and was about to serve to stay in the match at 6-4 5-4 down when play was suspended on the main court. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13780,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions\/13780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}