A protester appeared to set his arm on fireplace after operating on courtroom and briefly stopping play in the course of the Laver Cup on the O2 Area in London.
The younger man, sporting a T-shirt with the message ‘Finish UK personal jets’, was shortly eliminated by safety and detained in an inner hall.
Laver Cup organisers stated he had been arrested and police had been “dealing with” it.
The incident occurred earlier than the second set of the match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Diego Schwartzman.
“It got here out of nowhere,” stated Greek world quantity six Tsitsipas. “I by no means had an incident like this occur on courtroom. I hope he’s all proper.”
It’s the newest safety breach at a tennis event following incidents on the Australian Open and French Open earlier this 12 months.
A male protester, carrying a banner which learn ‘Abolish refugee detention’, jumped on to the courtroom in the course of the Australian Open males’s singles last between Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev in January.
In Might, a feminine protester interrupted the French Open semi-final between Casper Ruud and Marin Cilic. She walked on to Court docket Philippe Chatrier, knelt beside the web publish, tied one thing round her neck and mounted it to the web.
In London on Friday, there was a brief delay of about 5 minutes earlier than the Laver Cup match resumed.
Tsitsipas, taking part in for Staff Europe, had simply received the opening set and the Greek went on to clinch a 6-2 6-1 victory.
The win put Europe 2-0 forward within the three-day crew occasion after world quantity two Ruud received 6-4 5-7 10-7 in opposition to Jack Sock within the opening match on Friday.
Later, Swiss nice Roger Federer performs the ultimate match of his profession when he performs alongside Spain’s Rafael Nadal in a doubles match in opposition to Sock and his fellow American Frances Tiafoe.
