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The 2025 Madrid Open experienced a bizarre hiccup on Monday, April 28, after a nation-wide power outage in Spain. Two men's singles matches were primarily affected by the incident, as the scoreboards and the electronic line calling system stopped working at Caja Magica due to the sudden power crisis.
At the time of the outage, the third-round clashes between Grigor Dimitrov and Jacob Fearnley, and Damir Dzumhur and Matteo Arnaldi, were ongoing. Dimitrov and Fearnley's match on Manolo Santana, Caja Magica's center court, was at a critical juncture when the lights went out across Spain. At the time, Fearnley was staying to serve in the match, trailing the Bulgarian 4-6, 4-5.
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Iga Swiatek, the WTA No. 2 and the defending women's singles champion at the Madrid Open, is slated to play on Manolo Santana after the conclusion of Dimitrov and Fearnley's men's singles third-round clash. The Pole is set to lock horns with No. 13 seed Diana Shnaider in the fourth round. However, whether this particular match goes ahead as planned or not depends completely on when power is restored.
A video has emerged of fans in the darkness at the combined WTA 1000 and ATP Masters 1000 event. Watch it below:
It has been an eventful couple of days at the Madrid Open. Notably, on Sunday, April 27, Alexander Zverev's hard-fought third-round victory against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina was marred by the German disputing a contentious line call.
Alexander Zverev involved in heated argument with chair umpire in Madrid Open men's singles 3R
The electronic line calling system ruled a shot hit by Alejandro Davidovich Fokina to have landed in during the Spaniard's third-round clash against Alexander Zverev at the 2025 Madrid Open. This irked the German, who was adamant that the ball had landed out. There was a back-and-forth between Zverev and chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani after the decision went against the ATP No. 2.
Later, after registering a 2-6. 7-6(3), 7-6(0) win over the Spaniard, Zverev took to his Instagram Stories and shared a post. It featured a photo of the ball mark that he had controversially captured with his smartphone while on court. He also added a sarcastic caption to the post, writing:
"Just gonna leave this one here This was called in Interesting call 🤔🤔 "
Several fans later criticized Zverev over the way he handled the situation, even though the German issued a clarification on the incident during a post-match interview.
