Karen Khachanov ended Casper Ruud\u2019s run of five straight games as he held to go 1-0 up on serve at the beginning of set two. As the players changed ends, the chair umpire told them to wait and see whether the rain was going to get any worse. \u201cIf we just stay just a minute here, and let\u2019s see what\u2019s happening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But they played on, and Ruud got his service game underway. The rainfall was so heavy that it could be heard during the rally. And after the 23rd seed went 15-0 up, they had to call it. \u201cLadies and gentlemen, play is suspended,\u201d the umpire announced.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, so I think the players are going to be hurried off here,\u201d Nick Lester said on commentary, while co-commentator Miles Maclagan commended Khachanov for getting back on the board before the delay, which put some pressure on Ruud.<\/p>\n
After Ruud and Khachanov had left the main stadium court and headed back to the locker rooms, Lester added: \u201cThe court is going to be covered, we\u2019re going to be, perhaps, a little while here, I\u2019m afraid to say, while the rain moves through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Khachanov ended Casper Ruud\u2019s run of five straight games as he held to go 1-0 up on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[26344,26410,23810,25564,267349,267350,6741,267351,79,1068,267352,5838,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-957433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-casper-ruud","9":"tag-elina-svitolina","10":"tag-iga-swiatek","11":"tag-italian-open","12":"tag-italian-open-play-suspended","13":"tag-italian-open-rain-delay","14":"tag-jessica-pegula","15":"tag-karen-khachanov-elena-rybakina","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tennis","18":"tag-tennis-live-updates","19":"tag-tennis-news","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116568293971741624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957433","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=957433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}