The match between Spaniard Rafael Jódar and Italian Luciano Darderi, part of the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters 1,000, was momentarily interrupted due to a technical problem with the system used by the referees to record the score and the hawk-eye.
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“The match will resume as soon as the system is restarted,” said the chair umpire.
It is believed that the cause of the technical problem, which forced the match to be suspended for a few minutes when the Spaniard was leading the score 6-5, was the thick smoke that covered the court coming from the flares and fireworks used by Inter Milan fans, who celebrated the Coppa Italia just a few meters from the stadium.
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The circumstance is that the quarterfinal match between Jódar and Darderi, scheduled for late Roman afternoon, started in the middle of the night due to the rain that fell for much of the day in Rome, which caused the schedule to be delayed.
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