Winston-Salem quarters postponed due to rain, power outages

ByReuters

Published 23/08/2019 at 06:26 GMT

Aug 23 (Reuters) - The quarter-finals of the Winston-Salem Open have been moved to Friday after heavy rain saw only one match get underway before being suspended, organisers of the North Carolina event said.

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Top seed Benoit Paire was leading Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta 4-3 in the opening set of the first quarter-final on Thursday before bad weather rolled in and caused power outages.

The semi-finals will also take place on Friday. (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford )

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