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Madison Keys joked that she had been tempted to tackle protesters as multiple tennis matches at the Italian Open were interrupted by the climate change protest group Last Generation on Monday.
During Keys’s 6-2, 6-1 win against Sorana Cirstea, play was stopped for nearly an hour after protesters threw confetti on to the clay courts and tried to glue themselves to the stadium. “Honestly, as soon as I saw them come over the barrier, my first thought was: ‘Should I go tackle them?’” said Keys, laughing. “I stopped myself and then the chair [umpire] started yelling at me to go sit down. Unfortunately it’s starting to become a bit of a common thing that’s happening. At that point, I figured it was probably going to be a little bit of a delay and just tried to get off the court and regroup.”