Why Don't They Schedule The Ao Later In The Year??

[-SharonA-]

Watching our Edmund turning red as a lobster, Monfils claiming he was dying last night (he is a drama queen anyway) temperatures of 105 and over. Some of these players can barely serve in this heat let alone play.
Surely this Open would benefit from a scheduling later in the year when it is much cooler. Makes sense.

[-SharonA-]

Congratulations to Edmund. Looks like he will be a good successor for Murray.

[bhg481]

Nice spoiler there Sharon. Nice discussable subject and then you throw in a result with no warning.

[murraymints]

Agree , far too hot for play...

[douglas9401]

Tennis authorities will have taken advice on this and acted accordingly.
Players don't have to enter if they think the heat will be a problem for them. It's more of a test of fitness and staying power the way it is.

[-SharonA-]

Bhg, you can still discuss........

[diddlydo]

The tennis calendar is already very loaded. You couldn't just move the AO without also rearranging all the other ATP schedule. Whether they should have suspended play in the extreme conditions is a separate issue.

[bhg481]

Sharon - it didn't bother me as I don't watch the tennis but there are those who do and would have been drawn to the thread by your title and then immediately told of the result of a Brit's match. My wife watches the tennis, in the case of the AO records it overnight and then watches through the day - we go to extreme lengths to avoid results.
Wasn't the Australian Open at the end of the year until a few years ago? Moving it forward a month would reduce the temperatures somewhat. Perhaps the Australians just wanted theirs to be the first Open instead of the last.

[sapelesam]

If I read the post and realised what it is about, I wouldn't read on if I had recorded it, as from experience somebody will mention the result.

[ichkeria]

If you're trying to avoid a sports result don't go online would be my advice.
It would be hard to re-scedule this as said. Tennis is a summer sport and an outdoor sport and it gets vey hot in the summer in Australia.
Home advantage plainly doesn't work as no Australian male has won there for 42 years.