Week 8 - ATP 500 - Claro Rio Open - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (clay)

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 8 - ATP 500 - Claro Rio Open - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (clay)

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Scrap that as soon as I posted that and went back in the app it changed to 21:00 local time. So 00:00 GMT.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Thanks. Going to try to resist watching at that hour though, it just wrecks for the next day !

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
Thanks. Going to try to resist watching at that hour though, it just wrecks for the next day !

I won't be watching tonight, but for me a midnight start, while not ideal, is the absolute limit. I did generally watch a WTA match (not a BO5) each night at the Aussie Open from 12am as I can just about justify staying up until 2/2.30am max and still be able to get up around 8 and be fresh enough, but any later than that and it's not great and that's obviously for the highest level event of the sport.

No doubt if you did watch, there'll be further rain delays just while you're getting into it.

Edit - apparently play is cancelled for the day anyway.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Monday 18th of February 2019 11:47:43 PM

JonH · All-time great

Madadman wrote:
Scrap that as soon as I posted that and went back in the app it changed to 21:00 local time. So 00:00 GMT.

3 hours !,? I've learnt something new, thought it was 5!

indiana · Tennis legend

Brazil has a number of time zones and I was aware from Bob in Spain / Brazil that remarkable as it may seem in our winter / their summer for part of the country, including Rio, there is only a 3 hour time difference from the UK.

Though I guess if you transported the USA to the southern hemisphere but still on the same longitude then similarly eastern USA would just be 3 hours behind us at this time of year.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 19th of February 2019 12:41:59 AM

flamingowings · All-time great

Cam is now playing today at 1pm local time/4 pm here. The rain must've done a number yesterday as there was no more play.

Ps - also did not know that Brazil had various timezones!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Cam is now playing today at 1pm local time/4 pm here. The rain must've done a number yesterday as there was no more play.

Ps - also did not know that Brazil had various timezones!

Yes it does. And even more confusing is that some of them have daylight saving whilst others don't, so the time differential even within the country varies at different times of the year. Where I work in Natal (in the North East) we don't have daylight saving, but all year it gets light around 5am and dark at about 6pm. I have often thought it should be in a different time zone.