invasion and paint on the sphere –

On the Italian tennis internationals, the match on the “Nicola Pietrangeli” court docket between the American Madison Keys and the Romanian Sorana Cirstea was interrupted as a result of a protest with an invasion of the court docket. The ladies’s spherical of 16 match was 6-2 3-1 for the American, with the gamers then returning to the locker room. Two activists jumped the barrier and entered the sphere with orange vests and threw confetti, additionally throwing white paint on the crimson clay discipline. They provided no resistance. Others glued themselves to the stands. With the general public very indignant in opposition to the demonstrators, the law enforcement officials and firefighters additionally arrived.

One of many demonstrators had moved onto the garden below the massive display of the Pietrangeli: he was taken away by the police. The request of the Final Technology environmentalists is that of a restore fund for local weather disasters. Nowadays they’re in Rome the place they met to debate some proposals and already yesterday they’d staged a number of protests. An identical protest was additionally made on Courtroom 12, the place the second spherical match of the doubles between Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Marcelo Arevalo/Mate Pavic was performed.