{"id":197237,"date":"2025-06-19T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197237\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:28:22","slug":"watch-tennis-spectator-hurt-as-advertising-board-falls-in-germany-tournament-issues-statement-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197237\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tennis spectator hurt as advertising board falls in Germany; tournament issues statement | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/121946670.jpg\" alt=\"WATCH: Tennis spectator hurt as advertising board falls in Germany; tournament issues statement\" title=\"An advertising board fell on a spectator during a tennis match in Halle, Germany. (Screenshot)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>An advertising board fell on a spectator during a tennis match in Halle, Germany. (Screenshot) A 62-year-old spectator was injured when an advertising board fell during Alexander Zverev&#8217;s match at the Halle Open tennis tournament in Berlin on Wednesday. Zverev quickly provided an ice pack to help the injured woman, who was later taken to a local hospital as a precaution.Tournament director Ralf Weber addressed the incident in a statement: &#8220;There has never been anything like this in our 32-year tournament history. We deeply regret the incident.&#8221;Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/@toisports\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>The organisers offered the spectator a season ticket for next year&#8217;s tournament as compensation for the incident.Zverev, the world number three, went on to defeat American Marcos Giron 6-2, 6-1, securing his place in the last 16 of the Wimbledon warm-up event where he will face Lorenzo Sonego.<br \/>&#8220;It was a great match from me,&#8221; Zverev said. &#8220;I felt like I didn&#8217;t let him play that well, which was important.&#8221;Daniil Medvedev progressed to the quarter-finals after defeating France&#8217;s Quentin Halys 6-2, 7-5, becoming the first player to reach this stage of the tournament.In other matches, Alex Michelsen defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6 (7\/5), 7-5, with Karen Khachanov also securing a straight-sets victory, over Zizou Bergs.World number one Jannik Sinner is scheduled to play against 2023 Halle champion Alexander Bublik on Thursday, with a quarter-final spot at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An advertising board fell on a spectator during a tennis match in Halle, Germany. (Screenshot) A 62-year-old spectator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[80054,4721,27106,2000,299,1824,80057,79523,4718,8730,80055,80056],"class_list":{"0":"post-197237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-advertising-board-incident","9":"tag-alexander-zverev","10":"tag-daniil-medvedev","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-halle-germany","15":"tag-halle-open","16":"tag-jannik-sinner","17":"tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","18":"tag-tennis-spectator-injury","19":"tag-wimbledon-warm-up-event"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114710269461423185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}