The Brisbane International established in 2009 is a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
outdoor hardcourts in
Brisbane
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,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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in Australia. It is a
WTA Premier tournament of the
WTA Tour
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and was part of the
ATP World Tour 250 series
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of the
ATP World Tour
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until 2019, when it was dropped from the ATP Tour.
The tournament is held annually in January at the
Queensland Tennis Centre
Queensland Tennis Centre, known during its development as the Tennyson Tennis Centre, is a tennis venue in Tennyson, Brisbane, Australia.
It is an A$82 million tennis facility opened on 2 January 2009 at the site of the demolished Tennyson P ...
just before the first
Grand Slam
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tournament of the season, the
Australian Open
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(part of the
Australian Open Series
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). It is owned by
Tennis Australia.
History
In 1997, the
Corel
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WTA Tour created a new event –played on outdoor hardcourts– in
Gold Coast, Queensland
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.
The
Tier III Gold Coast Classic was added to the three preexisting tournaments of Auckland, Sydney and Hobart, and became one of the two events held in the first week of the women's calendar, parallel to the men's Adelaide tournament. Various players, among which
Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles t ...
,
Justine Henin
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,
Patty Schnyder
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Weltwoche, 14. September 2011 is a Swiss reti ...
or
Venus Williams
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found success over the years at the low tier tune-up event for the Australian Open. The Gold Coast Classic became the Thalgo
Australian Women's Hardcourts in 1998, took the sponsorship of
Uncle Tobys
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in 2003, becoming Uncle Tobys Hardcourts, and changed names again in 2006 to Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts.
[
Meanwhile, the ]ATP International Series
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Australian Hard Court Championships
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in Adelaide, which had evolved into the AAPT Championships in 1999, Next Generation Hardcourts in 2005, and Next Generation Adelaide International in 2006 had become one of the three stops of the calendar's first week, alongside the Qatar Open of Doha
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, and the Chennai Open
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in India.
As both the men's and the women's tour calendars were to undergo important changes from 2008 to 2009, with the WTA inaugurating its new roadmap of International
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and Premier
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tournaments, and the ATP Tour becoming the ATP World Tour, with new Masters 1000
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, 500 500 may refer to:
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and 250
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events, it was decided in 2006 to merge the Next Generation Adelaide International
The Australian Hard Court Championships was a former professional tennis tournament established in 1938 and held until 2008. The event was played on clay courts until 1977 when it switched to hard courts. The tournament was a combined event for m ...
and the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts
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into a larger ATP-WTA joint tournament in Brisbane, leading, similarly to the joint Medibank International Sydney, to the Australian Open. Tennis Australia chief Steve Wood commented on the shift: "One of the reasons we are doing this is that there's a rise of more lucrative overseas tournaments in the lead-up to the Australian Open offering increasingly attractive alternatives to the top players looking to prepare for the first Grand Slam. ..So we really wanted them to invest in having them continue to prepare here in Australia, on the road to the Australian Open."[ The first Brisbane International took place in Brisbane's newly built ]Tennyson Tennis Centre
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– and its Patrick Rafter
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-named Centre Court – in January 2009. In time for the 2012 event the tournament was promoted to a premier event on the WTA tour.
Following the 2019 edition, the tournament was no longer recognised as an ATP event, due to the creation of the ATP Cup
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(played at the same venue). The tournament continued as WTA-sanctioned event for female tennis players.
Following the Covid-19 pandemic which saw the WTA Premier Event move to Adelaide for the 2021 and 2022 season, along with the departure of the ATP Cup to Melbourne in 2021 and Sydney in 2022, there is growing speculation that neither event will return in 2023. It's likely that both will be replaced by the ATP and WTA 250 events that were held as part of the Melbourne Summer set in 2022.
Past finals
In the men's singles Andy Murray
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(2012–13) holds the record for most titles with two and Murray concurrently holds the record for most consecutive titles. In the women's singles, Karolína Plíšková (2017,2019–20) owns the record for most titles with three.
Women's singles
Men's singles
Women's doubles
Men's doubles
See also
* Australian Hard Court Championships
The Australian Hard Court Championships was a former professional tennis tournament established in 1938 and held until 2008. The event was played on clay courts until 1977 when it switched to hard courts. The tournament was a combined event for m ...
– men's and women's tournament in various locations (1938–2008)
* South Australian Championships
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– men's tournament in Adelaide (1889–1989)
* Danone Australian Hardcourt Championships – women's tournament in Brisbane (1987–1994)
References
External links
Official website
ATP World Tour tournament profile
WTA Tennis tournament profile
{{WTA International tournaments
ATP Tour 250
WTA Tour
Hard court tennis tournaments
Sport in Brisbane
Tennis tournaments in Australia
Recurring sporting events established in 2009
2009 establishments in Australia
Annual sporting events in Australia
Tennis in Queensland