Tuesday offered turbulent weather at the Australian Open.
First, all matches on the open courts were postponed for several hours when the temperature reached 37 degrees.
Then rain moved in, which then continued to fall during Wednesday morning.
The organizers were forced to postpone 14 matches in the first round until Wednesday, when at the same time matches in the second round are played.
Continued delays
But Wednesday's rain has led to all matches on the outdoor pitches also having to be postponed.
The outdoor matches are postponed by half an hour or hour at a time.
At 16:00 (06, Swedish time) no one had yet started, as the rain was still hanging in the air, and the latest prediction is that no one will start before 17 (07).
- I knew I would play my match under cover, and not be postponed.
It's really bad for the players who had to wait all day yesterday, it's exhausting, and now they probably have to stay another whole day on the field, says Iga Swiatek at a press conference after his match, and continues:
- It's nothing that the organizers can do anything about, but I'm surprised that they didn't put in yesterday's postponed matches earlier in the morning today in the big arenas.
But I don't know how it works, maybe it has to do with the TV rights, she continues.
"Can not sleep"
The confusion also meant that the match schedule for some of Wednesday's matches was only determined late on Tuesday evening.
"The time is 11.50 p.m.
I won't be one of them, but how can you let players play at 11 in the morning, if you still don't have a schedule at this time," Belgian Kirsten Flipkens wrote on Twitter
"I personally think that most players can't sleep if they don't know whether to play at 11 in the morning or 8 at night," she adds.