Current:Home > News'Cotton Eye Joe' interrupted a tennis match: 'Is this really happening now?' -RiskWatch
'Cotton Eye Joe' interrupted a tennis match: 'Is this really happening now?'
View
Date:2025-04-15 15:59:52
Where did you come from, where did you go, where did you come from at the Canadian Open, Cotton Eye Joe?
It was an unusual interruption in one of the biggest matches of the Canadian Open, as No. 1 seeded Iga Swiatek and No. 4 seeded Jessica Pegula played their semifinal match in Montreal Saturday. During a critical point of the match, with Pegula up 4-3 in a second-set tiebreaker and three points away from victory, Swiatek was about to strike the ball when the 1995 song by the Rednex just started to play out of nowhere.
The crowd was stunned, and Pegula was visibly confused as to why the song began to play inside IGA Stadium.
Swiatek went on to win the tiebreaker to force a third set, but Pegula was able to recover to win the match in a 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-4 victory. She was also able to have a laugh in the odd incident after the match.
"I just thought it was funny. I've never had that happen, let alone 'Cotton-Eye Joe' I was like, 'Is this really happening now?' Like, of all the songs, it was just like what is going on?" Pegula said.
Pegula will hope there are no music interruption in the Canadian Open final, where she'll face the winner of Elena Rybakina and Liudmila Samsonova on Sunday.
veryGood! (98)
Related
- Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
- Belarus sentences independent newspaper editor to 4 years in prison
- King Charles III meets with religious leaders to promote peace on the final day of his Kenya visit
- Purdue coach Ryan Walters on Michigan football scandal: 'They aren't allegations'
- Justice Department, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing
- Iran sentences a woman to death for adultery, state media say
- Israel’s encirclement of Gaza City tightens as top US diplomat arrives to push for humanitarian aid
- Eric Trump wraps up testimony in fraud trial, with Donald Trump to be sworn in Monday
- Behind on your annual reading goal? Books under 200 pages to read before 2024 ends
- A small plane headed from Croatia to Salzburg crashes in Austria, killing 4 people
Ranking
- The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
- Bass Reeves deserves better – 'Lawmen' doesn't do justice to the Black U.S. marshal
- Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah leader threatens escalation with Israel as its war with Hamas rages on
- Australian woman faces 3 charges of murder after her guests died from eating poisonous mushrooms
- Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
- Businessman sentenced in $180 million bank fraud that paid for lavish lifestyle, classic cars
- Why Kendall Jenner Was Ready for Bad Bunny to Hop Into Her Life
- Arkansas sheriff arrested on charge of obstruction of justice
Recommendation
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Triathlon
2 teens plead not guilty in fatal shooting of Montana college football player
Toyota is not advising people to park recalled RAV4 SUVs outdoors despite reports of engine fires
Israel says it's killed a Hamas commander involved in Oct. 7 attacks. Who else is Israel targeting in Gaza?
How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
A planted bomb targeting police kills 5 and wounds 20 at a bus stop in northwest Pakistan
Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old can proceed with $40 million lawsuit, judge rules
Lessons from brain science — and history's peacemakers — for resolving conflicts