Melbourne Park set for a grand slam scorcher


  • Tennis
  • Sunday, 12 Jan 2014

Current Australian Open tennis champions Serbia's Novak Djokovic (L) and Victoria Azarenka from Belarus walk with the championship trophies to the official draw ceremony at Melbourne Park January 10, 2014. REUTERS/David Gray

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Melbourne Park gets its first glimpse of title favourites Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams in action on Monday's opening day but it is not just the heat of the on-court action that is exercising minds at the year's first grand slam.

While the world's best players seem pretty much unanimous in their enjoyment of the trip Down Under to start the season, the prospect of temperatures regularly exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) this week is a less enticing prospect.

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