“It’s not really possible, but once you don’t have the opportunity (to use your phone), I loved it,” Medvedev said. “We had a great sandwich dinner, because there was no hot food … We were just enjoying and in the end, it was perfect timing. Around 10:30 p.m. the power was on, a small time on the phone, and then go to bed. It was perfect.”
World No. 6 Jack Draper said he was “actually enjoying” the time to “focus on what is important.”
“I’m a bit of a minimalist,” he said. “Everyone was panicking, but it was so nice to actually have no phone and none of the other (stuff) going on in the world, and just try and focus on what is important. I ended up reading 10 pages of a book. Usually I don’t read at all, so it was interesting.”
Women’s second-ranked Iga Swiatek said she “just chilled and used that time to not think about what I should do.”
“There was no signal, so basically no one used their phones,” she said. “It was nice, I liked it.”
Swiatek said tournament organizers handled the situation adequately, helping players in a difficult situation.
“Honestly, who would have predicted that, you know? I’m sure no one,” she said.
