Just as the third round match featuring Belgian former number one, Justine Henin, was about to get underway, a Russian gray whale forcibly beached itself on the Hisense Arena, halting play. To add to the tournament's problems, the scheduled opponent, who was supposed to be something like a professional athlete, never showed up. It took the tournament officials and several volunteers, who just couldn't stand to see massive, bloated, obese, nonathletic, slow, and profusely sweating cetaceans on a grand slam premier court, over 2 hours to clear the mass of fat and bone(pictured below).
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