“I’m not going to lie: I’m a little scared of bees.“. Carlos Alcaraz admitted in a press conference that these insects were not particularly to his liking. He did so after being attacked by a swarm during his Indian Wells quarterfinal match against Alexander Zverev.
It all happened at the beginning of meeting, which had to be suspended for almost two hours. The Murcian took advantage of that time to warm up, stretch… and see what happened.
And the photos of the incident spread on the networks like wildfire, as Alcaraz himself was able to verify. Along with some of his team members, The Wimbledon champion watched the pictures while laughing and making comments.
“I was seeing some bees when I was warming up (to continue the meeting) so I’m not 100 percent on the bees out there. The referees told me to try but I wasn’t 100% sure about restarting the game.“, he said after the meeting.
Only 9 minutes of the match were played (1-1, 15-0 for Alcaraz) when the chair umpire ordered a halt on the center court of the California desert tournament because an “invasion of bees” – in his words – made play impossible.
Alcaraz, who had most of the bees on his side of the court, suffered the sting without major consequences and both tennis players ran to the locker room.
The source of the problem is a ‘spidercam’a high-altitude camera that moves suspended by cables and on which hundreds of flying insects are installed.
Then the unexpected savior of the day stepped into action: a beekeeper who, armed with a vacuum cleaner and surprisingly without any kind of protection on his face or hands beyond sunglasses, managed to remove the bee from that room as well as the track. and the first rows of stands.
Source: La Verdad
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