In the heart of the clay court season at the Madrid Open, a sudden national power outage ripped through the city, halting play and plunging the tournament into chaos. The cutting-edge electronic line-calling system, which had banished line judges, flickered out, and the scoreboards fell silent. Among those forced off the court was Britain’s Jacob Fearnley, caught in the blackout’s unforgiving grip. The blackout’s shadow stretched beyond tennis, darkening traffic lights and forcing Madrid’s underground to evacuate, a haunting echo of a similar outage in Portugal. Now, barely a heartbeat later, chaos erupted again, this time at the Cincinnati Open, where Madison Keys and Jannik Sinner battled through fierce disruption.

Play roared back to life at the Cincinnati Open after a tense 75-minute

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