A really Australian interruption occurred on the Brisbane Worldwide Tennis event on Saturday – snake stopped play.
Information.com.au reviews that former world quantity three Austrian participant Dominic Thiem was competing in a qualifying match in opposition to Australian James McCabe when a snake was noticed, having slithered onto courtside.
Whereas snakes are frequent in Australia, spectators quickly noticed that this was a toxic japanese brown snake virtually hidden within the electrical wiring along with the court docket.
Play was halted for about 40 minutes whereas the decision went out for a snake catcher, who arrived and promptly parcelled the snake right into a bag.
McCabe had gained the primary set 6-2 when the snake arrived, however the delay helped Thiem flip issues round and he went on to win the match in three units.
Rafael Nadal and Britain’s Andy Murray are each competing on the occasion, forward of the primary of this 12 months’s Grand Slams, the Australian Open, which begins in a fortnight in Melbourne.
