National Power Outage Stops Play At Madrid Open

A nationalist powerfulness outage stopped play astatine nan Madrid Open, pinch Britain's Jacob Fearnley among those forced disconnected court.

Fearnley had saved a lucifer constituent successful his third-round brushwood against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and was astir to service to enactment successful nan lucifer astatine 6-4 5-4 down erstwhile play was suspended connected nan main court.

The powerfulness trim meant nan physics line-calling strategy - which has replaced statement judges - and scoreboards stopped working.

After a little hold nan umpire announced play would restart, pinch him making statement calls successful spot of nan system.

However, nan spider camera which hangs debased complete nan tribunal had go stuck successful spot and was successful nan player's eyelines.

After further chat nan umpire led nan players backmost to nan locker room.

Spain's energy grid usability Red Electrica confirmed powerfulness outages crossed nan state and said it was moving to reconstruct electricity.

There person been reports postulation lights not moving and nan underground railway strategy being evacuated successful Madrid, and a akin powerfulness outage successful Portugal.

Scotland's Fearnley is 1 of 3 British men owed to play successful nan 3rd information successful Madrid connected Monday.

Cameron Norrie is group to look Canada's Gabriel Diallo earlier British number 1 Jack Draper plays Matteo Berrettini of Italy.