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The 2024 U.S. Open had it is newest unusual on-court incident Tuesday night time when a bug flew across the courtroom and stopped a match between Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov and American Frances Tiafoe.
Throughout the second set of the eventual Tiafoe win, the insect flew down in entrance of the 2 rivals and evaded seize for minutes.
The match was tied within the second set, 4-4, on the time of the interruption.
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Ball youngsters try and catch a moth that landed on the courtroom throughout a males’s singles quarterfinal match between Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria and Frances Tiafoe of america on the 2024 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle Sept. 3, 2024, within the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York Metropolis. (Jamie Squire/Getty Photographs)
A number of ball boys approached the courtroom to try to seize the insect, however their first a number of makes an attempt have been unsuccessful. The New York crowd laughed with every failed try and subdue the bug.
Finally, one of many ball boys bought his hand on the bug after which raised his fist in triumph to announce he had captured it. The group roared with a sarcastic applause.
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Play resumed shortly after, and Tiafoe received 6-4.
Tiafoe’s victory means the U.S. can have a house participant within the males’s remaining for the primary time since 2006. Tiafoe will face countryman Taylor Fritz within the semifinals after his quarterfinal win over Alexander Zverev.
This yr’s U.S. Open has already had its share of surprising incidents involving ball workers and on-court stoppages.
On Monday, play was suspended on all courts for a quick interval as a result of a hearth alarm.
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Ball youngsters try and catch a moth that landed on the courtroom as Frances Tiafoe of america appears to be like on throughout a males’s singles quarterfinal match towards Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria on the 2024 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle Sept. 3, 2024, within the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York Metropolis. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Photographs)
Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva issued a public apology after her third-round loss to Jasmine Paolini after she was slammed on social media for a disrespectful interplay with a ball woman Saturday. Video on social media confirmed the awkward second when Putintseva appeared to provide the ball woman a chilly shoulder through the second set of the 6-3, 6-4 loss.
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