{"id":440009,"date":"2026-01-27T05:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:09:13","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-v-alex-de-minaur-alexander-zverev-v-learner-tien-aryna-sabalenka-v-iva-jovic-coco-gauff-v-elina-svitolina-day-10-scores-schedule-draw-times-how-to-watch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440009\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz v Alex de Minaur, Alexander Zverev v Learner Tien, Aryna Sabalenka v Iva Jovic, Coco Gauff v Elina Svitolina, day 10 scores, schedule, draw, times, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The women\u2019s world No.1 played her match first-up on Rod Laver Arena with the roof open, the mercury climbing, the wet bulb drying and the crowd wilting.<\/p>\n

Had her straight-sets victory gone into a third set – she beat Iva Jovic 6-3, 6-0 – the roof would have been closed and the players given an extra break. As it was, no such intervention was needed.<\/p>\n

\"Sabalenka<\/p>\n

Sabalenka cools down.Credit: AP<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the match, it was really hot out there,\u201d Sabalenka said of the conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad they kind of closed the roof, like, almost half way so we had a lot of shade in the back so we could go back and stay in the shade.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was hot out there. I guess, yeah, as a woman, we are stronger than the guys, so they had to close the roof for the guys so they don\u2019t suffer, you know (laughter).\u201c<\/p>\n

The two-time Australian Open champion knew if the match went longer, the roof would be closed – as it was for the start of the Zverev-Tien match next up on Rod Laver Arena as the mercury edged 40 degrees.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The roof was closed half-way.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew going into this match that they won\u2019t let us play on crazy heat. If it would reach the 5, they would definitely close the roof, so I knew that they were protecting us, our health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we finished and it was 4.4, so it was, you know, quite hot. It\u2019s okay. I\u2019m happy that I managed.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, the Australian Open operates to a heat stress scale that measures air temperature, radiant heat (the strength of the sun), humidity and wind speed.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re combined to return a rating from one to five; at five, play can come to a halt once an even number of games has been reached.<\/p>\n

\"Sabalenka<\/p>\n

Sabalenka is a fan favourite.Credit: Penny Stephens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The women\u2019s world No.1 played her match first-up on Rod Laver Arena with the roof open, the mercury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-440009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}