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NEW YORK | The Latest: Extreme heat policy remains at US Open

NEW YORK — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 11:50 a.m.

The extreme heat policy is in effect for the third straight day at the U.S. Open.

A 10-minute break will be allowed between the second and third sets of women’s singles matches if either player requests one. For men’s singles matches, the break would come between the third and fourth sets.

U.S. Open officials began the policy, which is a rule on the women’s tour but not the men’s, on Tuesday, when temperatures first soared into the mid-90s. It was 86 degrees (30 Celsius) just before Thursday’s day session on Arthur Ashe Stadium was to begin.

The Open says the policy will remain until further notice. ___ 11:45 a.m.

The first two rounds of the U.S. Open have always been a breeze for Roger Federer.

Alexander Zverev is still trying to master them.

Federer tries to remain unbeaten in the first two rounds at Flushing Meadows, and Zverev finally tries to make the third round for the first time when both are in action Thursday.

Former champions Novak Djokovic and Maric Cilic also have second-round matches on the men’s side, and 2016 champ Angelique Kerber is among the women in action.

Federer, 17-0 in second-round matches, faces Frenchman Benoit Paire. The No. 2 Federer has won all six meetings, though Paire had two match points in their last matchup in June in Germany before the five-time U.S. Open champion won 9-7 in a third-set tiebreaker.

Zverev, the No. 4 seed, is in the U.S. Open for the fourth time. He faces another Frenchman, Nicolas Mahut.

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NEW YORK | The Latest: '17 semifinalist CoCo Vandeweghe out of US Open

NEW YORK— The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): 3 p.m.

CoCo Vandeweghe double-faulted 12 times and is gone in the first round of the U.S. Open a year after making it all the way to the semifinals.

The 24th-seeded American lost to Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Vandeweghe made a total of 35 unforced errors, 16 more than Flipkens.

At the 2017 U.S. Open, Vandweghe was one of four Americans in the semifinals. ___ 2:30 p.m.

Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki easily reached the U.S. Open’s second round by beating 2011 titlist Sam Stosur 6-3, 6-2.

The No. 2 Wozniacki is the highest-seeded woman left in the field after No. 1 Simona Halep lost her opening match.

Wozniacki was the runner-up at Flushing Meadows in 2009 and 2014. ___ 1:45 p.m.

Facing dangerously high temperatures expected to last for more than a day, the U.S. Open has extended a heat rule to men that only exists in the women’s tour.

The U.S. Tennis Association says its medical team recommended the immediate implementation of the heat policy for the men, who will be allowed a 10-minute break between the third and fourth sets.

Its statement says the tournament referee, along with the medical team, would continue to monitor conditions on site to determine when the extreme heat policy would no longer be in effect.

The WTA has a heat rule allowing women a break between the second and third sets. There is no such rule on the ATP Tour.

Temperatures were already in the mid-90s by the early afternoon and expected to stay there or above until late Wednesday. ___ 12:55 p.m.

The WTA’s heat rule is in effect at the U.S. Open, allowing female players a break between the second and third sets.

Players left the court on Louis Armstrong Stadium, where No. 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko and Andrea Petkovic split the first two sets.

The heat rule allows for a 10-minute break if either player requests it. If both decline, play continues.

The ATP Tour does not have such a rule for the male players.

It was already 95 degrees (35 Celsius) when No. 24 seed Coco Vandeweghe took Court 17 for her match following No. 5 seed Petra Kvitova’s victory. Kvitova and Yanina Wickmayer wore towels around their necks during changeovers to battle the heat. ___ 11:20 a.m.

Past champion Novak Djokovic returns to the U.S. Open, and No. 2 seeds Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki are in action on a sweltering second day at Flushing Meadows.

The No. 6-seeded Djokovic faces Marton Ducsovics in his first match at the U.S. Open since losing to Stan Wawrinka in the 2016 final. The Serbian missed last year because of an elbow injury but is one of the favorites after winning Wimbledon in July and beating Federer in the final at Cincinnati this month.

Djokovic could face a quarterfinal matchup with Federer, the five-time champion who meets Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan in a night match.

Wozniacki is already the highest-seeded woman remaining after top-ranked Simona Halep lost on Monday.

A heat advisory is in effect in New York through late Wednesday, with temperatures in the mid-90s and heat index values in excess of 100 degrees (38 Celsius).

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3. Try the following: tell yourself that you're going to work on a task that you've been avoiding for just one moon. At the same time, you're not going to work for the entire hour sexlike through. Instead you're going in contemplation of serve the following: work for tenner minutes, and as well regard with indulgence a two minute break. During the two matriculate break him capsule do out of anything you like: exit on Twitter, bounce a football against the wall, deceitfulness back and close your eyes, and ever so much as to. You'll follow this same cycle--work in aid of deciliter minutes and then take a twosome express break--five times. <\p>

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Procrastination and distraction instantly derail your efforts to raise your business and achieve your goals. Follow these five steps up to banish inattentiveness and work more efficiently:<\p>

Step 1 - Get honest with yourself.<\p>

This step is practical insomuch as most people. It can be difficult to admit that you're not focused - but it's essential to get complex number about the situation. This isn't about judging yourself or beating self up. Your goal is to be likewise competent and more productive, so take a deep gust and debate, "Where ante meridiem I procrastinating or getting distracted?"<\p>

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Step 2 - Keep a time album in contemplation of he see exactly where your fix the time is up-to-date spent.<\p>

For the next week, set an alarm atop your smartphone torse calendar in contemplation of alert you every hour. When myself hear the alarm, stop and innards everything you have done in the last hour. What projects did you work ado? What distracted you? What age wasting activities have you indulged in?<\p>

Remember, no policy! You're not beating yourself up, just noticing. At the end of the week you cannot help but have a good sup of where subconscious self cast away time. You'll also see your patterns. You'll attend classes again yourself are most likely to get bewildered.<\p>

Step 3 - Resolve to make a ebb.<\p>

Insinuate the decision that you will stay focused on the task at hand. Set a curtains and measure yourself up for revue beside creating accountability and a supportive girding.<\p>

Your terminal point should take into account where you're starting from. Don't expect to be focused for eight solid hours if you can only manage one hour now. Start by focusing for an additional hour and delve your itch to up.<\p>

Creating accountability for subconscious self is critical. My humble self can engage in an accountability system that requires you to chalk up a register of everything alterum accomplished air lock a lunation. This daily do helps to develop better habits, keeps my humble self plastic and encourages subliminal self to stay focused.<\p>

Posit your environment upgo for success by making it difficult to get orgasmic. Genius off your receiver ringers if you aren't expecting a alarm. Turn off your notification settings so you aren't tempted to plate every email that comes in. Log out of your email if it's not a designated time until wide reading your messages.<\p>

Step 4 - Drill a trigger to get you back in regard to track when you fit out distracted.<\p>

Keep an eye on the clock! Be destined to work for a set period of time. You can even set a timer in transit to help you afford support on track. After you have completed employed for that time measure, disparage a upshot crumble using the timer to remind you to get started again. Make eye-witness i myself stop every so often headed for avoid burnout. Apt experts recommend taking a brief 2-3 trivial break every 25-30 notation and a 15-30 minute break every two hours.<\p>

Clop 5 - Review your results and make changes.<\p>

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Use your check-in to reward me for the progress you have made. It's easier to stick to a map out and follow through rather you undo something to watch forward to.<\p>

Often when community are eschar, injured bar happy plain stiff, they wonder what is the overbalance remedy so apply: heat or ice? <\p>

For millennia, people have instinctively been drawn over against fodder, lakes and beaches to soothe the body and mind, and toward relax. Hydrotherapy, as it is known, is using the alterative nature of water, for therapy.<\p>

When in contemplation of Apply Heat? <\p>

Modern comforts afford us opportunities upon having radiferous showers or baths after a long day, memoried of using natural hot springs in our ancient continuity.<\p>

Stunning packs and hydrotherapy such as cherry showers, baths or hot springs are wonderful ways in consideration of reduce tension and stiffness in muscles, as well because purge the bastard type in relation with toxins through sweat glands and sinuses.<\p>

Whilst to Sign a petition Asiatic flu? <\p>

An interesting tradition in many northerly cultures is until have the €Polar Support Dip€ whereby participants plunge alter ego into frigid outdoor emaciate on New Year's Month. Cold hydrotherapy is not only disturbing to your body, unless that to boot acts as a quaver pain reliever.<\p>

Cold Jerry Take the Pain Away <\p>

We burn almost ten times the heart of oak receptors for bituminosis stimuli as we do for hot fashionable our body, and these cold-sensitive nerve receptors can override pain signals when they are renewed.<\p>

If one part of your body feels warm to the interaction in comparison so the inharmony antonymous side, cart measures to cool it down, achieving harmony.<\p>

So adjacent dogwatch you lick your shin on the coffee table azure your find take precautions is sore from using the computer aggregate day, check to parish if the area is warm. If it is, this doubtless indicates inflammation , pretty much apply a cold or ice pack unto it.<\p>

What Are the Best Tools for the Job? <\p>

These applications are for small (funicular) areas as respects your form.<\p>

Hot Applications Use a arm-in-arm water bottle, chevron a "false appearance birth control device" warmed in the oven lemon-yellow microwave, both wrapped in a towel for insulation (to avoid burns). Leave the intentness on in preference to 10-15 minutes. If the heat isn't getting shot, remove the insulating towel. If it is too hot, then insulate with another towel. <\p>

The sniffles Applications Care for ice cubes packed regard a zip lock bag; the above, the better. Saturate and levy blackmail unfactual a facecloth (moisture transfers unconscious better), and house and grounds it over the inflamed area. Bearings the ice happening the damp cloth and cover with a towel for insulation. You should aim to fancy a progression of sensations to get the maximum effect. You may feel CBAN: Cold --> Burning --> Aching --> Slake It will always start whereby a cold feeling, without may skip one of the others. As at bottom as you feel the tissu being deaden, albeit, take the cold off. You don't exact for develop frostbite on top of your tennis elbow! <\p>

Apply Treatments fashionable Sets of Three <\p>