Bushfire smoke: Australian Open games canceled

The Slovenian Dalila Jakupovic gave up in the first round after a coughing fit. In the 1-year-old's match against the Swiss Stefanie Vogele the score was 28:6, 4:5. Jakupovic first knelt and was then led off the pitch by a supervisor. “It was really bad. I've never experienced anything like that before, I was really afraid that I would collapse," Jakupovic said afterwards. “That’s why I’m down. Because I couldn't walk anymore. It was a little easier to breathe on the ground.”

The organizers had previously postponed the start of the qualifying matches from 10.00 a.m. local time to 11.30:XNUMX a.m. due to the smoky air. The main draw games are scheduled to begin next Monday.

The German tennis player Laura Siegemund and the former world number one Maria Sharapova from Russia ended their match at the invitation tournament in Melbourne's Kooyong district early after almost 2 hours. “I noticed a bit of a cough coming up at the end of the second set. I thought I was sick,” Sharapova said. Siegemund won the first round in a tiebreak, and in the second round the score was 2:1. The organizers then canceled the match.

Air in Melbourne is the worst in the world Melbourne residents were advised to stay indoors on Tuesday due to record bad air. The smoke triggered fire alarms in the city area. Television images showed that people were wearing protective masks.

Overnight the air in Melbourne became “the worst in the world,” health authority chief Brett Sutton told reporters on Tuesday.

According to the international database IQ Air, the air in Australia's second largest city was "very unhealthy". Among other things, the exposure to fine dust is measured. Training interrupted Training at the Australian Open was temporarily interrupted on Tuesday due to poor air quality as a result of the bushfires. After training was suspended, tournament organizers announced that conditions had improved and were being continually monitored. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said there would be a lot of smoke over Melbourne until Wednesday afternoon.

More than 20 people have died in the severe bushfires since the end of September. The organizers have so far ruled out postponing the Australian Open. “We do not expect any delays and we have taken additional measures to ensure that the Australian Open can proceed as planned,” Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley said recently.

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Bushfire smoke: Australian Open games canceled

The poor air quality in Melbourne caused by the bushfires near the Australian metropolis of millions also affected qualification for the Australian Open on Tuesday.

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