Players suffer again in heat
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Tennis players once again suffered as the temperature topped 40 degrees Celsius for the fourth consecutive day in Melbourne, the city’s longest heat wave in more than a century.
Players draped themselves with ice packs during changeovers and those in the women’s singles were given a 10-minute break before playing a third set, but tournament officials did not enact the “Extreme Heat Policy,” which would have suspended matches on the outer courts and closed the roofs on the two show courts.
The heat policy was put into effect on Thursday when the temperature reached 42 degrees in the early afternoon, suspending matches on the outer courts for about four hours.
The high again topped 42 degrees yesterday, though the humidity was lower than in previous days.
China’s Zheng Jie seemed to suffer most during her 6-2, 6-4 loss to Australian hopeful Casey Dellacqua.
“I was a little bit sick and also my mind was not working, I felt,” said Zheng. “I just watched the ball and just hit it. I didn’t know where I hit it,” she said.
Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz, the 20th seed, lost to Germany’s Florian Mayer and said: “I had no power to stay on the court. I felt like I’m going to collapse soon.”
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