Summary

  • Sharapova beats Mattek-Sands 6-3 6-4

  • Nadal through after injured Tomic retires

  • Murray beat Soeda 6-1 6-1 6-3

  • Temperature reached 42C in Melbourne

  • Players concerned about extreme heat

  • * Denotes next server

  1. Postpublished at 14:39 Greenwich Mean Time 13 January 2014

    Ever wondered what it would be like to play tennis in a tandoori oven? Yes? I thought so.

    Caroline WoznackiImage source, Getty Images

    Admittedly, manufacturers would have to assemble the world's largest oven for such a musing, one which has troubled man through the ages, to ever become a real-life scenario. Or, alternatively, we could stick two athletes slap in the middle of the Rod Laver Arena and watch how they survive a ferocious heatwave.

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