The 1/4 final match between German representative Alexander Zverev and Spanish Carlos Alcaraz in the Masters tennis tournament held in American Indian Wells was abandoned due to bee invasion.
The incident occurred in the first set when the score was 1:1. Tennis players had to leave the court. Journalist Jose Morgano, citing agent Albert Molina on his social networks, said that one of the bees stung Alcaraz in the forehead.
“After we left the field, we watched the bee invasion on TV and laughed. It was funny. “It’s not tennis, it’s what I’ll remember,” Alcaraz says. Web site Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
Alcaraz won with scores of 6:3 and 6:1. In the semi-finals, the Spanish representative will face Italian Jannik Sinner. In the other semi-final, Russian Daniil Medvedev will face American Tommy Paul. In the quarter-finals, Medvedev defeated Danish representative Holger Rune. The match, which lasted 2 hours, ended with scores of 7:5 and 6:4.
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