the Air in Melbourne has been one of the big topics of conversation towards tennis tournament the Australian Open.
the main tournament begins Monday, but in the week leading up to the, there have been qualifying matches and trainings, where players have complained about the poor air quality caused by smoke from wildfires.
Now take the Australian Open consistency and establishes a limit to how poor air quality may be during the fighting.
A scale with five steps has been introduced. There are so many particles in the air that it is equivalent to five on the scale, stop the game immediately.
If the monitoring stations at Melbourne Park detect enough particles that it is equivalent to four on the scale, must lægestaben together with the judge to decide whether a fight should continue.
Earlier this week, the u.s. space agency Nasa, to the smoke from the many wildfires that have burned millions of hectares of land, is so powerful that it is expected to take a whole round about the globe, before returning to Australia from a westerly direction.
The big forest fires in Australia means reduced air quality over Melbourne. If it gets too bad interrupted the fighting. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Qualifier Dalila Jakupovic from Slovenia gave up earlier in the week to continue a match after a hosteanfald, and several players had to according to the british tennis player Liam Broady take asthma medication to deal with the bad air.
the air Pollution got on Wednesday morning local time the organizers of the Australian Open to cancel all training, but since the quality of the air improved.
Several of the big tennis stars were asked to the situation during Saturday’s press conferences. According to Roger Federer, communication has not been good enough from the organisers ‘ side.
– Communication from the tournament to the people, the media, the fans and the players is the key, for you hear that it is not safe to be outside, you should keep pets indoors and close the windows, says schweizeren.
the Chief of the Australian Open, Craig Tiley, understand the frustration among the players.
– I think that the air quality in sport and tennis is a topic we will discuss more in the future, he says.
– We perfectly understand the anger. We have invited the players to come by and talk with us anytime.
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