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Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was contested on grass from then on up to 1987. Since 1988 the tournament was held on hard courts at Melbourne Park. Mats Wilander is the only male player to have won the tournament in both grass and hard courts.

Like all the other Grand Slam tournaments, the men and women singles competitions, men, women and mixed doubles and junior and master’s competitions.

The two main courts used in the tournament are Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Arena, and the retractable roof that can be closed in case of rain or extreme heat. Australian Open and Wimbledon is the only slam with the indoor game.

Held in the middle of the Australian summer, Australian Open is famous for its notoriously hot days. The extreme heat policy is put in play at the temperatures (and humidity) reaches a dangerous level.

Australian Open is usually very high participation, with 2009 Australian Open to reach the highest ever one-day day / night attendance record list for a Grand Slam tournament at 66018. The event is worth around £ 38 million Australian economy.

In 2008, the Rebound Ace surface, which had existed in the past 20 years in Melbourne Park, replaced by a progressive, moderate pace, acrylic surface known as Plexicushion Prestige. The main advantages of the new surface is greater consistency and less retention of heat (due to a thinner top layer). This change was accompanied by changes in the surface of all lead-up tournaments in the Australian Open. The change was controversial, mainly because of the new surface is the similarity with DecoTurf, the surface is already used by the U.S. Open.

The singles winners in 2009 were Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams. In Men’s Doubles, winners were Bob and Mike Bryan, and women’s doubles, winners were Serena and Venus Williams – the first time in history that both doubles titles were won by siblings. In the mixed doubles winners were Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi.
Source: WIKI
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