Australian Open: Prajnesh loses in straight sets

Australian Open: 1st of four Grand Slams of season begins in Melbourne

In Tennis, the main draw of the Australian Open, the first of the four Grand Slams of the season, begins in Melbourne from today. All world class players, including top seeds Novak Djokovic, Simona Halep, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Angelique Kerber, are taking part in the tournament.  India's Prajnesh Gunneswaran will be seen in action in the Men's Singles, with Leander Paes and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, with their team-mates, and the pair of Rohan Bopanna an...

Australian Open develops new extreme heat policy

Officials have scrapped the use of wet bulb globe temperature readings for next month's Australian Open which should result in more matches suspended or delayed by Melbourne's 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, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud cover. Australian Open officials today said, a newly developed "heat stress scale," whi...