{"id":585235,"date":"2026-05-15T09:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585235\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:36:17","slug":"coco-gauff-halts-match-for-medical-emergency-as-italian-open-umpire-makes-announcement-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585235\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff halts match for medical emergency as Italian Open umpire makes announcement | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff<\/a>\u2019s semi-final match at the Italian Open has been halted after the No. 3 seed noticed an issue in the stands. The American led Sorana Cirstea by a set, and Cirstea was serving at 2-3 in the second when Gauff realised something was wrong. The chair umpire immediately called for doctors and told the crowd that play would be halted while the spectator in question awaited medical attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Marija from centre court. It\u2019s upper level on the right side, we need a doctor,\u201d umpire Marija Cicak said over her walkie-talkie. Commentator Naomi Cavaday told Sky Sports viewers: \u201cSeems like there\u2019s a medical emergency in the crowd now. It was actually Gauff who spotted it in the crowd, a commotion up there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just going to have to wait for a moment whilst medical attention gets up there. I think it\u2019s right at the top as well, this is a very steep stadium, it just takes some time. We do just have a slight delay as we wait for this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gauff sat at her bench as Cicak came down off her chair, also calling Cirstea to the side of the court. Both players then took the opportunity to speak with their teams.<\/p>\n

Tim Henman was sitting courtside, and said: \u201cThe stadium is full at the top, so hopefully the person in question is okay, and they can get the medical attention as quickly as possible, and everyone is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameras cut to the upper section of the stands, as Cavaday added: \u201cWe just get a glimpse of the area where they\u2019re waiting for medical help, it does look like they\u2019re still waiting at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cirstea continued speaking to her coaches, while Gauff returned to the side of the court, standing alongside the umpire and watching what was happening in the stands. There had already been plenty of momentum shifts in the match, as the American came back from a break down in the first set to win it 6-4.<\/p>\n

She then led by a break in set two before Cirstea got back on serve. And Jamie Murray told viewers that the delay would affect the momentum even more. \u201cIt\u2019s the unknown of, \u2018How long are we going to be stopped for? When are we going to be playing again? Am I going to cool down? Am I going to lose my rhythm, my adrenaline, my momentum in the match?\u2019\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The former doubles No. 1 wasn\u2019t wrong. When play finally resumed a few minutes later, Cirstea was immediately broken. But Gauff, who finished runner-up last year, couldn\u2019t pull away with it, and the 26th seed broke back again.<\/p>\n

The rollercoaster continued and there was a third successive break as Gauff put herself ahead again and gave herself the opportunity to serve for a place in the final. And she got the job done, closing out a 6-4 6-3 victory to reach Saturday\u2019s championship match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff\u2019s semi-final match at the Italian Open has been halted after the No. 3 seed noticed an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[7510,13976,200035,52196,101,118,166777,166778,872,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-coco-gauff","tag-italian-open","tag-italian-open-match-halted","tag-sorana-cirstea","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-match-halted","tag-tennis-medical-emergency","tag-tennis-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}