Huge swarm of bees halt tennis match at Indian Wells with Carlos Alcaraz ‘stung on the head’ | T5HFDGK | 2024-03-17 16:08:01
Huge swarm of bees halt tennis match at Indian Wells with Carlos Alcaraz 'stung on the head' | T5HFDGK | 2024-03-17 16:08:01
A tennis match between Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev at Indian Wells was suspended after an unlimited swarm of bees chased the players off the courtroom of their quarter-final conflict.
Early within the third recreation of the contest, Alcaraz was seen wildly swinging his racket because the insects surrounded him as he prepared to serve.
The bizarre second initially drew laughs from the gang in California but the action was soon referred to as to a halt amid some of the weird match suspensions in current memory.
'Women and gentleman we're surrounded by bees here,' chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani, who was also underneath assault, introduced. 'Play is paused, play can't continue.'
The sudden arrival ultimately pressured Alcaraz and Zverev to run off the courtroom with spectators additionally seen heading inside to keep away from getting stung.
In the course of the lengthy break in play, Alcaraz's supervisor Albert Molina revealed the world no2 had been 'stung on the brow' before fleeing to the dressing room. &
'Carlos is ok and, fortunately, he was solely stung by one of the two thousand bees that have been on the courtroom,' Molina informed Cadena Cope.
'He is now within the locker room ready for the bees to go away.
'From the stands we saw a cloud and we thought they have been mosquitoes. Carlos was utterly surrounded and has left because if he stays there they chew him more.'
One exceptional photograph confirmed the bees overlaying 'spider cam' that glides throughout the courtroom in the course of the action.
At the time of writing, play had been halted for over an hour as officials desperately tried to cope with the sudden drawback.
A public handle inside the stadium announced a beekeeper had been sent for, with one brave specialist seen attending to the swarm hooked up to a bit of kit.
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