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Robert Zeglinski

Cotton Eye Joe song randomly interrupted tense match between Jessica Pegula, Iga Świątek

Jessica Pegula and Iga Świątek were just charging along as normal during their Canadian Open semi-final match on Saturday. And there came a point during the second set where they found themselves seeking a pivotal tie-breaking point at six-all.

But towards the end of a solid sequence of volleys, the 1995 hit song “Cotton Eye Joe” randomly started blasting over what appeared to be some loudspeakers by the court. Both players stopped, the watching crowd audibly gasped, and even the judge on the side couldn’t quite believe a song like that — from out of nowhere — interrupted the match.

What a profoundly weird moment:

After deliberation, Pegula and Świątek simply replayed the point and moved on. Pegula would eventually prevail in three sets. No harm, no foul.

But still: no one knows where this came from or where did it go?

This was how Twitter reacted

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