{"id":27312,"date":"2018-12-29T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27312"},"modified":"2018-12-29T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T09:22:04","slug":"australian-open-develops-heat-stress-scale-to-protect-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27312","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open develops &#8216;heat stress scale&#8217; to protect players"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"86\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Officials have scrapped the use of wet bulb globe temperature readings for next month&#8217;s Australian Open which should result in more matches suspended or delayed by Melbourne&#8217;s notoriously hot, dry and often windy conditions in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The wet bulb index is a measure of the heat stress in direct sunlight, which takes into account temperature, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Australian Open officials said on Saturday a newly developed &#8220;heat stress scale,&#8221; which takes into account air temperature, radiant heat, humidity and wind speed, will instead be applied along with more comprehensive measuring of conditions across Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>A 10-minute break between the third and fourth set will also be introduced in men&#8217;s singles matches when the five-point scale nears its most extreme point.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of heat-related breaks for male players brings the tournament in line with the US Open which was repeatedly forced to stop play earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Play will be suspended on outdoor courts and the roof closed on the marquee courts when the heat scale reading is 5.0 or above.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open begins on January 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have scrapped the use of wet bulb globe temperature readings for next month&#8217;s Australian Open which should result in more matches suspended or delayed by Melbourne&#8217;s notoriously hot, dry and often windy conditions in January. The wet bulb index is a measure of the heat stress in direct sunlight, which takes into account temperature,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}