The rainy weather in Paris caused the French Open competition to be canceled on the 5th. This is the second time this situation has occurred in the last 20 years since 2000.
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, June 5 (reporter Su Bin) the rainy weather in Paris caused the French Open competition to be canceled on the 5th. This is the second time this situation has occurred in the last 20 years since 2000. The organizer of the French Open said that the possibility of delaying the end of the event was not ruled out.
The rain in Paris began at noon. The men’s singles and women’s singles quarter-finals originally scheduled to start at 2 PM had to be postponed for several times, finally, the organizing committee announced that the event on that day was postponed to 6th (Thursday). The weather forecast shows that the rainfall will last until the early morning of the 6th.
In the postponed women’s singles quarter-finals, the defending champion Halep faced Anisimova, a 17-year-old American teenager, with seed Batty on the 8th facing seed case on the 14th. The men’s singles quarter-finals of the number one seed Jiao Kovic against Ya zvilev and the number four seed Tim against Kachanov were also postponed.
The semi-final of women’s singles will be postponed from 6th to 7th (Friday). However, the weather forecast shows that there will also be rainfall in Paris on the 7th.
According to the practice of the French Open, the women’s singles final is scheduled to be held on Saturday. This means that some female players have to compete for three consecutive days. In order to ensure fairness as much as possible, event organizers do not rule out the possibility of postponing the women’s singles final to Sunday. Usually, the men’s singles final on Sunday may also be postponed to Monday.
“This is not what we want to see.” “But if we have no choice, we will do so,” said Folger, the director of the French Open competition.”
Forre believes that some female athletes may have to fight for three consecutive days, and most of them may have waited a long time for such an important duel as the Grand Slam final. After playing two games in a row, facing such a heavyweight game is a great test for their physical recovery.
It is not without precedent that all the matches of the French Open ended on Monday. In 2012, Nadal failed to finish the match on Sunday because of the rain.
The organizer of the French Open also said that if it is necessary to ensure that the event ends according to the scheduled time, it is also possible to activate the three main stadiums of Philip Sarier, Susan Langlang and Simone Mathieu at the same time.
Forre said: “I hope everything goes well tomorrow. Tomorrow’s game is very critical. Then meteorologists will give their forecast for the weather on the 7th. We will formulate the schedule on the 7th according to this, this will be very difficult.”
The last French Open match day was canceled in 2016. Roland Garros, who held the French Open, was the only stadium without a roof in the four Grand Slam events. The French Open organizer said that the project to add a ceiling to the Central Stadium is expected to be completed before the start of the event in 2020.
The Meeting announced that the audience holding the tickets of the day can return the full amount according to the face value, or they can choose to enter Roland Garros with the tickets of the day, and whether they can enter the game, it depends on the seat situation in the field of view.