{"id":65759,"date":"2024-04-04T22:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=65759"},"modified":"2024-04-04T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:26:51","slug":"wta-tournament-bogota-delayed-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/04\/04\/wta-tournament-bogota-delayed-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Tournament in Bogota Delayed for Over An Hour Due to Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the tournament organizers&#8217; worst nightmare when a day&#8217;s schedule is heavily impacted due to inclement weather. Naysayers have more reasons to voice their criticism at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>At this week&#8217;s WTA Copa Colsanitas Zurich in Bogota, Colombia, it has been raining on every single day of main draw action. On Thursday, the second-round match involving two-time defending champion Tatjana Maria and Julia Riera on Cancha Central was suspended for at least three hours because of rain and then shortly after due to a power outage that lasted another hour.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Rain&#8230;The lights go out&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>It is possible that the rains caused a technical fault in the city&#8217;s power grid, bringing the match to a standstill. Players left the court for a long while, but exuberant Colombian fans stayed up until the resumption of play at around 8:40 pm local time (9:40 pm ET).<\/p>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s official X account (formerly Twitter) shared a sarcastic graphic of the situation when the match was suspended multiple times. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/maizpiracine\/status\/1776055694052970524?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one unhappy fan<\/a> alleged that the tournament did not allow the fans to re-enter the main court after leaving. Instead, they stayed within the venue and got rained on.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Lluvia\u2026 Se apagan las luces <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fCPn967w6S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/fCPn967w6S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Copa Colsanitas Zurich presentado por Visa (@CopaColsanitas_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopaColsanitas_\/status\/1776041994332053655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The delays didn&#8217;t help Riera, who lost all her momentum after winning the first set 6-2. After resumption from the washout&#8211;which was greeted with loud noises by the fans&#8211;she lost the second set 6-0 as errors crept into her game. The young Argentine regained her composure at the start of the third. She broke Maria to take a 2-1 lead before play was paused due to the aforementioned power loss.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Riera&#8217;s rhythm was affected. When the match resumed for a second time, she did not win another game, as Maria closed out a 2-6 6-0 6-2 win under the lights. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/09\/08\/three-moms-make-sensational-run-at-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">German mother of two<\/a> progresses into yet another quarterfinal in Bogota, where she will meet home favorite and 2021 champion Camila Osorio.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the late-night finish, the match between Francesca Jones and Laura Siegemund was moved to an outside court. At the same time, top seed Marie Bourzkova&#8217;s match against Hailey Baptiste continued on the main court.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the tournament organizers&#8217; worst nightmare when a day&#8217;s schedule is heavily impacted due to inclement weather. Naysayers have more reasons to voice their criticism at the tournament. At this week&#8217;s WTA Copa Colsanitas Zurich in Bogota, Colombia, it has been raining on every single day of main draw action. 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