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Brisbane International Tennis Tournament or Brisbane International - Brisbane(Australia) - professional tournament in big tennis held on the first days of the new year in Brisbane (Australia) on hard courts. Since 2009, the men's tournament belongs to the series ATP 250 with a prize pool of around $495,000 and tournament bracket, designed for 32 participants in singles and 16 pairs; and women - to the WTA Premier Series with a prize fund of one million dollars and a tournament grid designed for 30 participants in singles and 16 couples.
Women's Tournament
The women's section of the current Queensland competition was organized in 1997: a purely women's tournament that expanded the preparatory Australian Open, accepted sports complex in the Gold Coast. Here the tournament was delayed for 12 years and only in 2009, when in the neighboring Brisbane a new one was put into operation Queensland Tennis Center changed its venue. Since its inception, the tournament has been one of the basic categories of the elite women's tour, but in 2012 the organizers were able to find additional funding for their prize, raising its status to a tournament of the premier series.
Men's Tournament
The men's tournament has big story, but also only its modern part is connected with Brisbane: since the 1880s, that prize has been held in Adelaide, bearing the name of the South Australian Amateur Championship. Its modern history began in 1972, when the organizers were able to achieve the inclusion of the tournament in the calendar of the men's Pro Tour Grand Prix, and since 1990 - the main ATP tour: in the base series. Competitions throughout this period were preceded by Australian Open, duplicating its coverage. In 2009, the tournament moved to Brisbane's Queensland Tennis Centre, creating a new unified competition for both the men's and women's pro tours.
Every tennis player knows Australia as the cradle of tennis culture, which infects the fans with the intense atmosphere of battle during the world championships.
One of these is considered to be the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament in Brisbane, held annually and gathering a huge number of professional athletes In one place.
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Basic information about the tournament
These competitions were organized relatively recently - in 2009, when he moved from the town of Adelaide and the Gold Coast to the third largest city on the continent - Brisbane. It is held in the men's (ATP 250 series) and women's category (Premier series). The date of the tournament falls on the coldest month of the year - January, but according to the location of Australia, at this time it is warm and very comfortable here.
The courts are selected exclusively with a hard surface "hard" at the tennis base Tennyson Tennis Centre. When we watch such matches, it seems that we have just a beautiful blue, gray or blue carpet in front of us, but in fact, behind a pleasant appearance hides the high-tech development of modern tennis courts, allowing you to play fast and aggressive tennis.
History and origins of the competition
The origin of the international tournament in Brisbane, Australia can be roughly divided into the history of the men's and the history of the women's championship.
The women's tournament was first held in the city of Gold Coast, located in the small state of Queensland. From that moment on, the tradition began to hold it on the first week of January. It is also important that he was first assigned the III category in the grid of women's tournaments. This championship was held early stages in the form of preparatory fights before the Australian Open, which attracted a lot of tennis players of the world classification - Martina Navratilova, Marie Pierce, Justine Henin, Venus Williams, Dinara Safina, etc.
The history of the men's championship dates back to 1970, when the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) decided to add another tournament to the Australian and Oceanian Grand Prix competitions that preceded the Australian Open (Brisbane). Fans were able to admire the first professional-level tournament in 1972, in which the long-awaited laurels of the winner went to Alexander Metreveli.
The early stage of the birth of the men's championship in Brisbane was not optimistic - at the professional level, championships were held irregularly, and only eight years later, in 1980, it was moved from early January to late December. A few years later, in 1987, it was returned to the first week of January due to a shift in the Australian Open schedule to the end of January. After the transition to hard surface and the formation of the ATP Tour (1990), the Brisbane International Tennis Competition was assigned the lowest of the tour classification categories. This means that he became the championship of the basic world series with a prize pool of $125,000.
Formation of a unified tournament
During the various changes to the men's and women's tennis grids, the final decision was made to combine the previous championships in Adelaide and the Gold Coast into one quality championship with a higher prize pool. The first unified championship in Brisbane dates back to 2009. As for the women's tournament, in 2012 it significantly raised its status, turning from the championship of the basic international tour into a more prestigious competition of the premier category.
Tournament in Brisbane today
As for the present, in the new year 2015 the tournament will be held from 5 to 11 January. During the ATP Brisbane International draw, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer became the first seed. He will start the game in the second round of fights, and his first opponent will be either Australian John Millman (156) or "qualify".
The second seed was the Japanese athlete Kei Nishikori, who fought in the second round with the victor of the duel between the owner of the courts Marinko Matosevic and the American Steve Johnson.
The third seeded player was the Canadian Milos Raonic, whose opponent will be determined during the game between the Kazakh athlete Mikhail Kukushkin and the "qualifier" of the championship.
The fourth racket of the championship, Bulgarian talent Grigor Dimitrov will be able to find out the name of the first opponent at the end of the match between French representative Jeremy Chardy and Kazakh Andrey Golubev.
The fourth racket of the competition Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov learns the name of his first opponent after the match between the Frenchman Jeremy Chardy and the representative of Kazakhstan Andrey Golubev.
Prize money ATP fund Brisbane International is also determined and will be $494,310.
Basic information about International tournament in Brisbane:
- Location of the championship - Brisbane, Australia
– Covering the tennis field – hard
— The official website of the tournament is brisbaneinternational.com.au
- Prize in the ATP 250 category - $ 452.670
- Prize in the WTA Premier category - $ 1,000,000
Location: Australia, Brisbane
Time spending: 1.1.2018 - 7.1.2018
Coating: hard
Prize fund: $468,910
General prize fund: $528,910
Tournament description:
The Brisbane International Tennis Tournament, created at the end of December, is traditionally held in Brisbane. Women's competitions are held there on hard and open courts in the very first month of the new year. This event was created in 2009.
As a rule, experts consider the Brisbane Australia tournament as a kind of preparation for the most important event - Open Championship in Australia. This is what attracts many leading athletes to him, today he has been awarded the third category in the classification of tournaments.
As for male amateur tournaments, they have been held since the end of the last century in Adelaide. In the very first sports competition held on a grass court, the winner was A. Metreveli. Initially, it was held infrequently, but in last years regularly held in the first weeks of January.
Andy Murray from Great Britain, American Andy Roddick, Radek Stepanek and Rodin Söderling have repeatedly won in singles. In the same category in women's tournament Serena Williams, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Kaia Kanneli and Victoria Azarenka won the entire history. In doubles, the tournament was won by Marcelo Melo and Tommy Rebredo, Maxim Mirny and Daniel Nestor, Lukasz Dlowley and Paul Henley.
