Spectators were treated for injuries after a loose panel fell from the first tier of the OWL Arena during Alexander Zverev’s match with match with Marcos Giron in Halle yesterday.
With home favourite Zverev leading Giron 5-2 and 15-30 during their round of 32 match, play was halted when a loud bang was heard in the arena followed by a commotion of noise.
Images showed a piece of advertising board fell above the first tier of the stand onto spectators sitting below.
“There’s a disturbance in the crowd. A bit of the board has fallen off there. You can see it has come down into the seats.
“That could have been exceedingly nasty and if someone has been hit by that board falling… It looks like that row of seats behind [the gentleman] with glasses is unoccupied and fortunately so because that looks like the row the board fell into”.
