A power outage at the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament created a fair amount of chaos Monday around the grounds at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.

Tournament organizers posted just before 6 p.m. local time that play had been suspended due to an “on-site power outage.”

Tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg posted on X that smoke appeared to be rising from a generator on the property, with the power outage disabling the tournament’s Hawk-Eye electronic line calling system.

Cincinnati Open organizers told CNN, “The loss of power impacted several systems used by the tournament and caused a delay of approximately one hour before play was able to resume with generator power.”

At 7:25 p.m. Rothenberg posted that play had resumed on Center Court without video or scoreboards in the grandstand,

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