When will it stop raining in Hobart???

**Cheetahponti** · 01-12-11, 12:55 AM

Same question I had and in same boat re: parlay. On the tournament web page it says play will start at 5:30pm, but it earlier had said play will start at 3:30pm. Do these things get cancelled if rain continues for too long?? Don't know

**dfberger23** · 01-12-11, 01:12 AM

I got Mattek-Sands

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 03:11 AM

wash out gents. Play will resume tomorrow

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 05:09 AM

looks like it was just the DAY SESSION that was rained out. Look like we may see Bartoli-Vesnina night session match

**MUHerd37** · 01-12-11, 04:18 PM

I have been waiting on Mattek-Sands as well. I'm seeing rain there until Saturday. Tourney will prolly just be a washout.

**Restrepo** · 01-12-11, 04:30 PM

Don't get your hopes up guys, it's part of the same rain system that caused the floods in Queensland

**CollegePro** · 01-12-11, 04:36 PM

so which means they won't play again tonight??

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 05:51 PM

Originally posted by CollegePro

so which means they won't play again tonight??

I am seeing partly cloudy so they may get a window. Action is scheduled to start in 9 minutes (6 PM eastern) so we will see if any tennis takes place

**WillC** · 01-12-11, 06:08 PM

any action yet? conditions should be easing so there shouldn't be much delay today

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 06:19 PM

nothing yet. Just pulled up a feed and the court is still soaking wet. Hard to envision any play for at least 2 hours.

**brandoc** · 01-12-11, 06:23 PM

betfair has put the molik game in-play but clearly the court is soaked with probably little scope to play starting anytime soon...

**CollegePro** · 01-12-11, 06:25 PM

but rain completely stopped thouhg?? according to weather channel, they are suppose to be rainning till tomorrow...

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 06:36 PM

its hard to tell on the feed if its raining. But right now the ball kids are using squeegees to dry the court. Maybe a good sign

**CollegePro** · 01-12-11, 06:43 PM

cool... keep the update coming and thanks a lot for the update jrod

**dfberger23** · 01-12-11, 06:47 PM

This tournament is never going to happen.

**CollegePro** · 01-12-11, 06:52 PM

yeah.... it might be faster to just spend money and build the freaking roof...

**brandoc** · 01-12-11, 07:03 PM

hmm, not even aussies are stupid enough to dry a court while it's still raining.. so maybe there is hope of play.

**brandoc** · 01-12-11, 07:35 PM

In this technological age, you;d really think that there must be a better way to dry a court than using 10,000 really big white towels. I mean surely, they've been at it so far for at least half an hour and it still looks as wet as it did at the start.

i hope they have a good towel supply and cleaning contract...

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 07:40 PM

Originally posted by brandoc

In this technological age, you;d really think that there must be a better way to dry a court than using 10,000 really big white towels. I mean surely, they've been at it so far for at least half an hour and it still looks as wet as it did at the start.

i hope they have a good towel supply and cleaning contract...

was thinking the same thing

no way they finish this event by Saturday like the director wants

**CollegePro** · 01-12-11, 07:46 PM

they are keep trying to dry it with towel which mean it's giving us a hope that there will be a match tonight... but if they cancel the matches tonight, I will be dissapointed....

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 08:00 PM

players on the court right now for some light hitting. May be 45 minutes or so from tennis. Hopefully the rain holds off

**CollegePro** · 01-12-11, 08:15 PM

that's good news

**ha1ogen** · 01-12-11, 09:06 PM

dont wry guys im pretty sure theyll find a way to get all the matches finished, even if it extends until sunday

**Jrod124** · 01-12-11, 09:13 PM

players warming up finally.

**brandoc** · 01-12-11, 09:53 PM

if everyone´s going to lie down like Molik, the whole thing could be over by tonight

**ha1ogen** · 01-12-11, 09:54 PM

well the molik match is under way, but the peng match is rain delayed after 3 games...

**noober** · 01-12-11, 10:02 PM

it's not delayed. it just haven't started

**Euphoria38** · 01-12-11, 11:03 PM

Olga vs Shaui has kicked off its 6-2 and 4-4 with Peng serving... what a WTA match hehe. I wish I could watch.

**brandoc** · 01-12-11, 11:16 PM

In Auckland Peng came back a couple of times from first set down, and take the win. She´s basically the WTA archetype...

**ha1ogen** · 01-12-11, 11:20 PM

lets go peng, up 2-0 in the third

**ha1ogen** · 01-12-11, 11:33 PM

there we go, finally wrapped that up, good job peng