{"id":77279,"date":"2025-08-12T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77279\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:04:08","slug":"power-outage-disrupts-cincinnati-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77279\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage disrupts Cincinnati Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Facebook<\/p>\n<p>                Tweet<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"social-share_labelled-list__share\" href=\"mailto:?subject=CNN%20content%20share&amp;body=Check%20out%20this%20article%3A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F08%2F11%2Fsport%2Ftennis-cincinnati-open-power-outage-spt\" data-type=\"email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"share with email\" title=\"Share with email\"><\/p>\n<p>                Email<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Link<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7v0r1b001m2cp6gt0j1k2m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A power outage at the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament created a fair amount of chaos Monday around the grounds at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7v0vwe0000356ny2uxzzyr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Tournament organizers posted just before 6 p.m. local time that play had been suspended due to an \u201con-site power outage.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7v9e80000d356ns6qaxfck@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenRothenberg\/status\/1955023858164998601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted on X<\/a> that smoke appeared to be rising from a generator on the property, with the power outage disabling the tournament\u2019s Hawk-Eye electronic line calling system.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7v7r6l000a356njew16eg7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Cincinnati Open organizers told CNN, \u201cThe loss of power impacted several systems used by the tournament and caused a delay of approximately one hour before play was able to resume with generator power.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7veesi000g356n5n2rqn01@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At 7:25 p.m. Rothenberg posted that play had resumed on Center Court without video or scoreboards in the grandstand, and with ushers using their fingers to relay the score to spectators.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7vowir000o356n20gi3aio@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The power outage also briefly disrupted Tennis Channel\u2019s coverage of the tournament.\n    <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Cincinnati Open tournament is currently experiencing a power outage that is affecting our Tennis Channel, T2, and Tennis Channel App service. The tournament operations team is working as fast as possible to fix. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your patience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisChannel\/status\/1955027829810221246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7vp3h8000s356nrn5537rc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            More than an hour after play had resumed, an apparent fire alarm halted play again as the men\u2019s world No. 1 Jannik Sinner battled Gabriel Diallo on Center Court. Recent Wimbledon champion Sinner could be seen laughing at the surreal chain of events unfolding at the ATP 1000 level tournament.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7vq76u000x356nzegscdkf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            On-court microphones picked up the conversation as the chair umpire confirmed that both players were willing to play through the noisy conditions, and the umpire then confirmed that the Hawk-Eye operators were not being forced to evacuate the stadium.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7vyk260010356n0s5udxt3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The crowd cheered when it was announced that play would resume and then erupted in spontaneous applause when the fire alarm was finally silenced.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7w5wmq0014356n7jx1yy16@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A Tennis Channel announcer joked during the chaos, \u201cThis is the most dystopian tennis match we have ever been a part of.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme7wyqzp0017356n1reabbr4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Sinner would go on to win his match 6-2 7-6 (6) to advance to the round of 16.\n    <\/p>\n<p>              <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link A power outage at the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament created a fair amount of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-77279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}