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(MELBOURNE, Australia) — Australian Open officers be pleased delayed the birth of play by two hours on the 2nd day of qualifying, hoping that smoke from regional wild fires will positive later Wednesday.
Smoke and hazy prerequisites at Melbourne Park on Tuesday affected the opening day’s play with organizers criticized for permitting qualifying matches to proceed.
A name of avid gamers complained, including Australian Bernard Tomic, who sought clinical treatment at some point soon of his first-spherical loss when he struggled to breathe. Slovenia’s Dalila Jakupovic feared she would pass out sooner than retiring from her match when she collapsed to her knees with a coughing spell.
Health authorities keep a question to the air quality to leap between the “very wretched to unsafe differ” till as a minimal Wednesday afternoon, with a top temperature of 34 Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) sooner than a gradual weather alternate that’s field to bring rain.
Tennis Australia acknowledged it would proceed to work with its clinical team, the Bureau of Meteorology and Ambiance Protection Authority Victoria scientists when making choices about whether or no longer it’s obtain to play.
The Australian Open begins Monday.
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