{"id":517157,"date":"2026-03-04T02:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:10:08","slug":"tennis-amid-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517157\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Amid the Iran War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualifying matches are underway this week at ATP-WTA 1000 Indian Wells, a tournament that bills itself as \u201cTennis Paradise\u201d and attracts all the best players from both tours.<\/p>\n<p>But the lower branches of professional tennis are always sprawling far beyond any \u201cparadise,\u201d nearly everywhere all at once\u2014including onto the periphery of the U.S. and Israel\u2019s war on Iran that has engulfed the entire Persian Gulf region in danger and uncertainty. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/p\/iran-war-tennis-dubai-daniil-medvedev-players-stranded-indian-wells\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/87ad4411-0e0e-48ec-ad20-d87bc4f5c201_5760.jpeg\"  alt=\"As War Erupts, Tennis Is Grounded in a New Reality\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"img-OACg1c smSquare-NGbPBa pencraft pc-reset\"\/>As War Erupts, Tennis Is Grounded in a New Reality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fujairah Open, a 50-level ATP Challenger event in Fujairah on the short east coast of the United Arab Emirates, began a day late but continued its play on Tuesday\u2014at least for a short while.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of second round of qualifying matches, players, ball kids, and officials were suddenly told to run for cover. They fled with increasing urgency, as seen in footage of the match between Daniil Ostapenkov and Hayato Matsuoka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody inside the lounge, please!\u201d a woman\u2019s voice could be heard shouting on the ATP\u2019s stream of the match. \u201cGo, go, go!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe negligence from ATP is crazy\u2026ATP just don\u2019t care about players.\u201d -a player in Fujairah in an interview with Bounces.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of this article, including an interview with a player in Fujairah and reactions from others\u2014as well as updates on tennis players trying with and without success to make it out of Dubai\u2014please subscribe to Bounces. -Ben<\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?&amp;gift=true&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Give a gift subscription&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?&amp;gift=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary\" target=\"_blank\">Give a gift subscription<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?group=true&amp;coupon=e328333c&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 20% off a group subscription&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/subscribe?group=true&amp;coupon=e328333c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary\" target=\"_blank\">Get 20% off a group subscription<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qualifying matches are underway this week at ATP-WTA 1000 Indian Wells, a tournament that bills itself as \u201cTennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-517157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}