Jack Draper Wins as Madrid Open Resumes After Power-Cut

Jack Draper reached the round of 16 at the Madrid Open after opponent Matteo Berrettini retired injured as play resumed following a nationwide power cut.

Play was suspended on Monday in the Spanish capital after the electronic line-calling system and scoreboards went down.

Power was restored to the venue on Tuesday morning, allowing fifth seed Draper to take on Italian Berrettini, who is ranked 30th.

Draper won the opening set 7-6 in a tie-breaker after 57 minutes, finally converting his third set point opportunity.

At the end of the set, Berrettini withdrew from the match after speaking to Draper, indicating he had an abdominal problem.

Draper will face American Tommy Paul in the last 16.

Earlier, Grigor Dimitrov converted his third match point – over 24 hours after his first – to beat Jacob Fearnley and reach the quarter-finals.

The match was suspended during Monday’s outage with Dimitrov leading 6-4, 5-4, and they resumed their match on Tuesday after Iga Swiatek’s battling three-set win over Diana Shnaider.

Bulgaria’s Dimitrov eventually beat the 23-year-old Briton 6-4, 7-6.