(Video) Chaos at the Japan Open as Eva Lys Delivers her Post-Match Interview in Total Darkness Following an Unexpected Power Outage

Eva Lys will face World No.51 Sorana Cirstea in the round of 16 of the Japan Open.

(Video) Chaos at the Japan Open as Eva Lys Delivers her Post-Match Interview in Total Darkness Following an Unexpected Power Outage

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A bizzare scene unfolded at the 2025 Japan Open when Eva Lys was forced to give her on-court interview in complete darkness. The German star has produced a startling display to oust British star Katie Boulter in the Round of 32 of the ATP 250 tournament. She booked her place in the round of 16 at the event.

Lys has had a decent run this season and has made history on tour. At the start of the 2025 season, she entered the Australian Open as a lucky loser and defeated three players including Jaqueline Cristian to reach the fourth round. She then fell to Iga Swiatek 0-6, 1-6 in the round of 16 at the Grand Slam tournament.

The World No.44 then won her opening matches at the French Open and Wimbledon, but failed to get past the second round after losing to Victoria Mboko and Linda Noskova, respectively. She continued with good form at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo (also known as the Japan Open). There, she won her two qualifying matches against Yuliia Starodubtseva and Viktorija Golubic.

In the round of 32, she faced Boulter and demonstrated a commanding performance throughout the match. Lys successfully broke Boulter’s serve twice in the first set. Unfortunately, Boulter struggled on the court, managing to win only 50% of her points on serve. Her challenging performance continued into the second set as she was broken early.

Lys achieved a decisive victory over the former World No. 29, winning with a score of 6-2, 6-1 in a match lasting one hour and fourteen minutes. This marks Lys’s third consecutive win in the tournament. However, it is worth noting that Boulter has encountered challenges on the court since the Nottingham Open, having not advanced beyond the second round of any tournament since June.

After the win, Lys was being interviewed on the court, and during the interview, there was a total blackout. Despite the blackout, the interview still went on, which was strange. On several occasions, tennis has witnessed a lot of things that forced a match to stop, including medical timeout and toilet break, but not power outage.

Nonetheless, Lys will now face World No.51 Sorana Cirstea in the round of 16. The German star has walked her way from World No.66 to No.44 on tour this month, a 21 place rise. She will hope to win the title, despite Elena Rybakina being the favorite to win the tournament following her triumph at the Ningbo Open on Sunday (October 19).

Eva Lys admits she loves grinding after reaching her first WTA quarter-finals at the China Open

Eva Lys reached her first WTA 1000 quarter-finals at the China Open earlier this month. The 23-year-old defeated Iva Jovic in the second round before stunning Elena Rybakina in the third round, her first top 10 win of the season. She went on to beat McCartney Kessler in three sets to reach the last eight of the tournament.

Eva Lys
Eva Lys (X/The Tennis Letter)

However, she failed to progressed beyond that stage at the tournament losing to 2024 champion Coco Gauff in straight sets. During an interview with The Athletic after the event, Lys opened up about her good run in Beijing and how her game has transformed this 2025 season on tour:

I love to grind hard. I love to go over the edge sometimes. But sometimes I can’t do that because then I wouldn’t be able to play the next week. So, yeah, it’s a weird feeling to know the less, the better. It’s something we had to learn, not only myself but also my team. It definitely took a while. The first years were really, really tough, like up until last year. But, yeah, I changed a lot. I adjusted small details with my team.

Lys was diagnosed with spondyloarthritis in 2020, a progressive inflammatory disease that causes the recipient to feel pain and stiffness predominantly in joints around the spine and lower limbs. Despite the setback, the German has gone through it on the court, grinding out wins in difficult conditions.

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