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 a long history, but also only the modern part of it 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.

Location: Australia, Brisbane

Time spending: 1.1.2018 - 7.1.2018

Coating: hard

Prize fund: $468,910

Total Prize Fund: $528,910

Tournament description:

International Brisbane Tournament International Tennis, established 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, the Brisbane Australia tournament is considered by experts as a kind of preparation for the most important event - the 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 the men's 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. It was originally held infrequently, but in recent years has been 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 the women's tournament, Serena Williams, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Kaya 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.

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 ІІІ category in the tournament grid female rank. 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 stages of the men's championship in Brisbane were not optimistic - on 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 calendar plan Open Championship Australia at 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 various changes in tennis nets in the men's and women's categories, it was finally decided to combine the previous championships in Adelaide and the Gold Coast into one high-quality championship with a higher prize fund. The first unified championship in Brisbane dates back to 2009. As regards women's tournament, then in 2012 he significantly raised his status, turning from the championship of the basic international tour into the 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.

Sum prize pool ATP Brisbane International is also determined and will be $494,310.

Basic information about International tournament in Brisbane:

- Location of the championship - Brisbane, Australia
– Coating 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