{"id":669368,"date":"2026-05-14T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669368\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:07:13","slug":"tennis-coppa-italia-fireworks-trigger-surreal-smoke-delay-at-italian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669368\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Coppa Italia fireworks trigger surreal smoke delay at Italian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The Italian Open quarter-final between Italy&#8217;s Luciano Darderi and \u200cSpain&#8217;s Rafael Jodar was interrupted in \u200cbizarre circumstances on Wednesday when smoke from fireworks at \u200bthe neighbouring Stadio Olimpico drifted across the Foro Italico.<\/p>\n<p>Jodar was leading 6-5 in the opening set when thick clouds of \u200csmoke drifted onto \u2060the centre court from Rome&#8217;s Stadio Olimpico, where Inter Milan beat \u2060Lazio 2-0 in the Coppa Italia final, severely reducing visibility and briefly knocking \u200bout the \u200btournament&#8217;s electronic line-calling \u200bsystem.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Play was halted \u200cfor almost 20 minutes as officials waited for conditions to improve and for the system to reset.<\/p>\n<p>Television images showed the court shrouded in haze, with players and \u200cspectators struggling to follow \u200bthe action as smoke \u200blingered above the \u200bclay.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night scenes added to \u200ca chaotic day in \u200bRome after \u200bheavy rain earlier caused a delay of around two and a half hours, \u200bleaving \u200cplayers competing well into the evening.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by \u200bJanina Nuno Rios in Mexico \u200bCityEditing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The Italian Open quarter-final between Italy&#8217;s Luciano Darderi and \u200cSpain&#8217;s Rafael Jodar was interrupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,323139,323138,144074,323136,24421,26736,246282,85,323137,747],"class_list":["post-669368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bizarre-circumstances","tag-clouds-of-smoke","tag-fireworks","tag-foro-italico","tag-inter-milan","tag-luciano-darderi","tag-rafael-jodar","tag-sports","tag-stadio-olimpico","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669368","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=669368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}