{"id":392639,"date":"2026-01-27T06:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:38:13","slug":"australian-open-2026-temperatures-reach-42c-on-tuesday-at-melbourne-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392639\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Temperatures reach 42C on Tuesday at Melbourne Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extreme heat impacted the Australian Open again on Tuesday, with the tournament reaching its maximum “heat stress” rating.<\/p>\n

Temperatures in Melbourne reached 42C and could reach as high as 45C.<\/p>\n

The start of the wheelchair events, featuring British defending champions Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne, have been postponed until Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Play on the outside courts, where the junior matches are taking place, has been moved forward to 09:00 local time (22:00 GMT) and were completed before the highest temperatures arrived.<\/p>\n

The four singles quarter-finals – which include world number ones Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka – and various doubles matches take place on Rod Laver Arena and Margaret Court Arena, both of which have retractable roofs.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka’s 6-3 6-0 victory over Iva Jovic on Laver took place without the roof on, but it was closed for Alexander Zverev’s match against Learner Tien.<\/p>\n

Temperatures previously reached 40C on Saturday<\/a>, with play on the outside courts postponed for about five hours.<\/p>\n

The heat scale measures four factors – radiant heat (or the strength of the sun), air temperature in the shade, relative humidity, and wind speed – to decide when conditions have become too challenging.<\/p>\n

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe heat warning across the state of Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Extreme heat impacted the Australian Open again on Tuesday, with the tournament reaching its maximum “heat stress” rating.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}