NEW YORK — Play in 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev’s U.S. Open match in Arthur Ashe Stadium — and in any respect contests on different courts, too — was delayed for six minutes Monday when the match’s digital line-calling system stopped working as a result of the constructing the place it is housed was evacuated on account of a fireplace alarm.
“Following the dedication that this was solely an alarm, play was resumed,” the U.S. Tennis Affiliation stated in an announcement explaining the delay.
Medvedev took the primary two units towards Nuno Borges and so they had been at 2-1 within the third set of their fourth-round match when chair umpire Nacho Forcadell instructed them they wanted to cease.
“Women and gents, on account of a technical problem with the digital line-calling system, we have now paused the match,” Forcadell introduced to the gang in Ashe.
Medvedev wound up ending off his 6-0, 6-1, 6-3 victory.
An analogous scene occurred throughout the way in which at Louis Armstrong Stadium, the place Beatriz Haddad Maia was serving for the primary set of her match towards 2018 Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki when chair umpire Marijana Veljovic knowledgeable the gamers, then the spectators, there was a glitch with the automated system that makes out and in line calls.
There have been a complete of 15 matches in progress on the time. Finally, all resumed.
