The world n ° 4 Coco Gauff and the Russian Mirra Andreeva (7ᵉ) qualified this Monday for the quarter -finals of the Madrid WTA 1000 before a large power cut interrupted the game in the middle of the day.
The American won 6-4, 6-2 against the Swiss Belinda Bencic (42ᵉ) In the round of 16 and the Russian defeated 6-1, 6-4 the Ukrainian Yuliia StarodubtsEva (99ᵉ).
The two players will compete in the quarterfinals, a tournament stadium thatAndieva (18 years old on Tuesday) had already reached in 2024, but that Gauffs will discover.
A power cut that concerns “The whole Iberian Peninsula and part of French territory”according to the manager of the Portuguese electricity network Ren, interrupted the other matches shortly after 12:30 p.m. (10:30 am GMT).
-On the central, the match between Grigor Dimitrov (16ᵉ) and the British qualified Jacob Fearnley (68ᵉ) was suspended while the Bulgarian led 6-4, 5-4 and his opponent was at the service.
“The power outage prevents the use of the electronic arbitration system and left a camera suspended above the court” central, preventing the resumption of the game, wrote theATP on its site. The organizers of the tournament said on the social network X “Work to restore” the current “As quickly as possible”without giving schedule of matches.
On court n ° 4, the incident interrupted in the second set the match between the fall of Novak Djokovic (5ᵉ) on the 2ᵉ round, Italian Matteo Arnaldi (44ᵉ), and the Bosnian Damir Dzumhur (63ᵉ).
Arnaldi finally won 6-3, 6-4, according to a result published on X by the Italian tennis federation (FitP), the remaining score blocked at 6-3, 3-2 in favor ofArnaldi on the website of theATP.
