Heat stress incident prevalence and tennis matchplay performance at the Australian Open - ScienceDirect
Table 1. Medical and behavioural characteristics as a rate per 1000 h (absolute occurrence) according to ACSM WBGT zones. Table 2. Odds for medical and behavioural characteristics according to ACSM WBGT zone. Table 3. Match characteristics and association of change per ACSM WBGT zone in ELO adjusted matches. Fifty-one studies met all inclusion criteria. Screening through the reference lists of these studies found 11 more eligible studies, resulting in a total of 62 studies for the final analysis.10,12,13,16,21–78 The flow diagram (Fig. 1) illustrates the different stages of the study inclusion and exclusion process in detail. The extreme heat conditions at the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Australian Open events held in Melbourne suggest that this region of Southern Australia, and the sport of tennis specifically, will be a test case for climate change and summer sport (Govind, 2018). Melbourne is likely to face the impacts of shifts in temperature, heightened UV strength, prolonged drought, and