There are a lot of problems in Miami’s center court that have a rebound effect on Alcaraz

Eighteen minutes of the quarterfinal match between the Belarusians Victoria Azarenka and the ukrainian Yulia Putintseva. Only the fourth game was being played, on the center court of the ATP Masters and WTA 1000 tournament in Miami, and play had to be suddenly suspended.

The players sat in their seats, hoping to resume the match shortly. However, the minutes pass, and each other is invited back to the locker room.

The chair manager, the Croatian Marija Cicak This is what he recommends, check that time passes, and there is no solution. More than half an hour delay, the trouble continues at the headquarters, between the referee, the WTA supervisor and the organization of the tournament.

“It’s a power outage,” he explained. Cicada to tennis players. He commented that the electronic refereeing system originally worked, but there was no way to have sound and video on the field.

The option was left open for human linesmen to come in, but the chair umpire insisted no, that the ‘Hawk Eye’ system was right in the box where the information from the cameras was collected.

But there was no sound or image on the field, the referee considered that it could not be played normally.

Without a quick solution, with the delay of the approaching time, the Spanish is also affected Carlos Alcarazbecause he was on the next shift at headquarters (not before 8:30 pm) against the Italian Lorenzo Musetti.

He definitely couldn’t start at that time. Alcaraz-Musetti, which will accumulate the delay. And, most worryingly, there is the arrangement for the loss of image and sound which hinders, among other things, the normal development of electronic arbitration.