Clare Balding stepped in when a second-round match at Queen\u2019s was halted for a technical issue. Francisco Cerundolo was facing Jenson Brooksby in the last match of the day on the Andy Murray Arena, when they were left waiting on court during the second game after a localised power cut meant the electronic line calling stopped working.<\/p>\n
Chair umpire James Keothavong told the players to \u201cstop for a few minutes\u201d before confirming there was a power issue. Balding then told viewers at home that it was an issue because of the use of automated line calling at ATP Tour events, meaning there were no linespeople to make the calls.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve got an issue with power. As you heard James Keovathong say, there is an issue with power on court, and also in our commentary box, a localised power cut here at Queen\u2019s. Andrew Castle is alongside me, luckily no problems with your power,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Castle replied: \u201cI didn\u2019t start with any so that\u2019s fine! Can\u2019t do without what you don\u2019t have. I wonder what that is, maybe a generator out the back or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tournament referee Denise Parnell came down to the court while the players were made to wait at their benches. Cerundolo had broken in the first game and was serving at 1-0 40-15 when they were asked to stop.<\/p>\n
With no linesmen around, the only alternative was to ask Keothavong to call the lines if the power issues continued. \u201cWell, line calls are now automated, there are no line judges out there, so does that mean that system isn\u2019t working either?\u201d Balding asked.<\/p>\n
Castle added: \u201cYeah, it will be down to James Keovathong to call the ball from the umpire\u2019s chair.\u201d<\/p>\n
The world No. 140 was about to return Adrian Mannarino\u2019s serve at 1-1 in the second set when he realised his nose was bleeding and told the umpire, walking to his bench. The physio was called to the court, and play resumed around five minutes later.<\/p>\n
Fery went on to claim a 7-6(7) 6-4 victory, his third over a top-50 opponent, to reach a maiden ATP Tour quarter-final. He will now face either Cerundolo or Brooksby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare Balding stepped in when a second-round match at Queen\u2019s was halted for a technical issue. Francisco Cerundolo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6934,8296,1022,4601,8297,3460,28,304],"class_list":["post-20891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-clare-balding","tag-francisco-cerundolo","tag-hsbc-championships","tag-jenson-brooksby","tag-queens-tennis","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}