Madrid open players took the blackout ahead, enjoyed time away from cellphones

Madrid – Many tennis players who endured the power outage that stalled Spain and Portugal and disrupted the Madrid Open tournament on Monday that they had actually enjoyed some time outside their grid.

A total of 22 matches had to be postponed due to blackouts long blackouts that affect most of Spain and Portugal. A packed scheduled and talked about how players have dealt with without electricity and cellphone connections have resumed on Tuesday.

“It was okay,” the tenth -ranked Danil Medvedev said. “I have tried several times in my life to use my phone less, but you don’t have to transfer a bank you are calling you, your wife, your kids. You’re going to lose the connection. When I am not with my wife, he calls me so I can talk to the kids.”

The power was gone at noon and in most areas of Madrid was restored only deep night. Players and fans were told that organizers could leave the Kaza Magica Tennis Complex after postponing all the rest of the match for the day.

“This is not really possible, but once you get your chance (to use your phone), I like it,” said Medvedev. “We had a great sandwich dinner because there was no hot meal … we were just enjoying and in the end it was the perfect time. The electricity was turned on at 10:30 pm, a little time on the phone, and then went to bed. It was perfect.”

World No. Jack Jack Dragar said that he “enjoying the time of focus” is “what is actually important”.

“I am somewhat minimal,” he said. “Everyone was terrified, but no phone and any other (staff) in the world were running out, and just focus on what is important and focused on. I finished reading 10 pages of a book.

Women’s second -ranked IGA Sweetch said that “she was simply cool to think about what I should do and used that time.”

“There was no signal, so basically nobody used their phone,” he said. “It was good, I liked it.”

Sweetch says the organizers of the tournament adequately managed the situation, helped players in a difficult situation.

“Really, who predicted it, you know? I’m sure no one,” he said.

World No. 4 Taylor Fritz has made some suggestions to solve the problem with fun.

“What are they unplugging and trying to plug it again?” American player says in X, previously known as Twitter.

Australian player Alex de Minor, at number 7 in the world, wrote on X -with, with multiple emoji, “Don’t object to the grid thing.” “In the third foot of the day (of) the end of the world received some services to verify other parts of the world.”

His fiance, Katie Bolter in the world at No.1, responded quickly: “Imagine blameing a country’s blackout for not giving me back to me. Elite behavior,” he wrote with emojis.