Soaring temperatures have halted matches at the Australian Open tennis tournament, as a report warns that the country will see hotter heatwaves.

不断飙升的气温迫使澳网公开赛暂停比赛，一份报告称热浪还将继续维持。

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Yesterday, in women's singles final match at the 2013 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, Li Na, the most successful female tennis player lost to Azarenka at 1-2.

昨天，在2013澳大利亚网球公开赛女单决赛上，中国最优秀的女子网球选手李娜以1-2的比分惜败阿扎伦卡。

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The tournament was played on Rebound Ace for the first time in Australian open tennis history.

在澳网史上，联赛第一次在硬地球场举行。

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Not every nation is moving as quickly as the U.S. Craig Tiley, the head of Tennis Australia's player development and tournament director for the Australian Open, which starts Monday, said he fully expects that private clubs, which run most tournaments for children in Australia, will continue to use a regular ball.

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Some other tennis venues, such as those used for the Australian Open have sliding roofs - but that tournament is on hard courts, which react differently to a living surface like grass.

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Despite the incident resulting in a one-month ban from the International Tennis Federation, a year later Tomic's father was railing at an Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley so vehemently about the scheduling of one of his son's matches that security had to be placed around the official.

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