{"id":429547,"date":"2026-01-24T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:05:08","slug":"australian-open-live-jannik-sinner-in-trouble-as-matches-suspended-in-extreme-heat-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429547\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open LIVE: Jannik Sinner in trouble as matches suspended in extreme heat | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heat rule will likely come into effect on day seven of the\u00a0Australian Open, with temperatures expected to reach the high 30s.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers have already taken precautionary measures\u00a0by starting the main draw singles and doubles matches 30 to 60 minutes early, and have advised fans to stay safe in the extreme temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open has its own Extreme Heat Protocol, which takes air temperature, radiant heat, humidity, and wind speed into account.<\/p>\n<p>It also considers \u201cthe extent to which a person can control the rise in their body temperature and the physiological cost of doing so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These measures are expressed as the heat stress scale (HSS), something Tennis Australia implemented in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The scale ranges from one to five, and cooling measures, breaks, and a full suspension in play can come into effect depending on the number on the scale.<\/p>\n<p>Heat stress scale readings are continually made throughout every day of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heat rule will likely come into effect on day seven of the\u00a0Australian Open, with temperatures expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6005,22932,7641,176487,179000,49,115873,44709,48,619,615,2083,82,593,54820,621,42242,20436],"class_list":["post-429547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-atp-tour","tag-australian-open","tag-australian-open-live","tag-australian-open-scores","tag-ca","tag-cam-norrie","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-canada","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-live","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-scores","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}